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How to define Twitter noise and breaking into Techmeme were among the interesting subjects this week (April 28 - May 4 2008):

• How to define the Twitter noise ratio, which was highlighted last week, continued to be discussed this week. There are a few related indices, e.g. Stowe Boyd's Conversational Index = (number of tweets / number of replies made by followers), Dave Winer's Twitter Spewage = (number of updates * number of followers) and the Follow factor = (number of following / number of followers). My thought on this, which has also been expressed by others, is that the noise ratio must be based on the number of tweets or updates in a time period of fixed length, e.g. in the past week, not the number of tweets since the user signed up to Twitter. Hopefully I will develop my thoughts on this interesting subject in a forthcoming post.
  Tags: Twitter
• How to break into Techmeme 100 as a solo blogger was discussed by Hutch Carpenter, who suggested three possibilities: 1. Long Slog (slow and steady), 2. Big Events (e.g. recognition by bigger bloggers), 3. Celebrity (e.g. Marc Andreessen). As for me, I am contented with just showing up on Techmeme, which was accomplished by a big event. Apparently my Microsoft-Yahoo post didn't make it on Techmeme, despite linking to three articles currently on Techmeme. I'm slightly annoyed, wonder what's going on, hmm ...?
  Tags: blogging, Techmeme
• Adobe announced the opening up of the file format specifications for Flash (.swf and .flv files).
  Tags: Flash
• Robert Scoble thinks that the most interesting page of a FriendFeed user is the discussion page, like http://friendfeed.com/user/discussion. Louis Gray's success on Techmeme can be attributed to his frequent commenting on others' contributions.
  Tags: blogging, FriendFeed
• YackTrack tracks the conversation around a blog post at disparate sources like Digg, Disqus, FriendFeed, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and WordPress.
  Tags: comments
• Popfly Game Creator was released in alpha this week, a service based on Microsoft's Silverlight technology. It is aimed at non-programmers, and could possibly be something for my 7-year-old nephew, who is heavily into online flash based games at sites like miniclip. It might be a tad too difficult though, and I think it requires a lot of patience, which he might not have, and then it's the English, which he's used to and interested in, but probably not good enough at. It's worth a try anyway.
  Tags: online games