MIT on Twitter

Below is an unofficial list of Twitter accounts run by on-campus entities. If you know of one that’s missing, please let me know so I can add it to the list.

http://twitter.com/CSFtweets
http://twitter.com/GambitGameLab
http://twitter.com/MIT150
http://twitter.com/MIT150Exhibit
http://twitter.com/MITAeroAstro
http://twitter.com/MITCSAIL
http://twitter.com/MITCSAIL_news
http://twitter.com/MITCareerOnline
http://twitter.com/MITCrimeClub
http://twitter.com/MITEECS
http://twitter.com/MITDCTI
http://twitter.com/MITForumFL
http://twitter.com/MITMAA
http://twitter.com/MITNews
http://twitter.com/MITOCW
http://twitter.com/MITSloanAlumni
http://twitter.com/MITSloanExecEd
http://twitter.com/MITSloanMBA
http://twitter.com/MITWorld
http://twitter.com/MIT_TechTV
http://twitter.com/MIT_alumni
http://twitter.com/MITboston
http://twitter.com/MITcpw
http://twitter.com/MITiClub
http://twitter.com/MITlibraries
http://twitter.com/MITmedical
http://twitter.com/MITprehealth
http://twitter.com/MITscience
http://twitter.com/SloanEdServ
http://twitter.com/c4fcm
http://twitter.com/cms_mit
http://twitter.com/futuresof
http://twitter.com/medialab
http://twitter.com/microsystechlab/
http://twitter.com/mit100k
http://twitter.com/mit1996
http://twitter.com/mit_hst
http://twitter.com/mit_sciwrite
http://twitter.com/mitcnc
http://twitter.com/mitentforum
http://twitter.com/mitesd
http://twitter.com/mithomepage
http://twitter.com/mitmuseum
http://twitter.com/mitpress
http://twitter.com/mitsap
http://twitter.com/mitsloan
http://twitter.com/mitsmr
http://twitter.com/mitspain
http://twitter.com/mitwebpub
http://twitter.com/nextlab
http://twitter.com/scratchteam
http://twitter.com/sipb
http://twitter.com/techreview
http://twitter.com/ua_senate

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Fenway Art Center … in the Back Bay?

I always thought it strange that the Fenway Art Center is locates in the heart of the Back Bay. It’s been there a long time too. To the right is Cafe Jaffa which is intermittently open and may have a customer or two when you walk by.
Rent can’t be cheap, L’Espalier (one of the most [...]

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Yes, it is Fall. They brought out the mighty ornamental cabbage

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Fall in Boston

Chill is in the air and though it’s not clear from the picture, the leave are turning on the Esplande.

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The Leisure Link’s Launch in Boston

From the The Leusure Link web site comes news of a cool event in Jamaica Plain studio of the “A Far Cry” players:

The Leisure Link’s Launch in Boston:
A Fundraiser for Take Back Your Time
with special guest John de Graaf, National Coordinator of Take Back Your Time
TBYT is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge [...]

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An example of hyper-local and real-time web

I’m on the number 1 bus, Mass Ave. from Boylston to the Orange Lime T. Checking Twitter I see a friend is at the Ben Fold’s show at Boston’s Symphony Hall; it’s on the route.
As we pass by the symphony, a mother, remarking on the un-symphony like crowd says: “who’s playing tonight?” She picks up [...]

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Amazon Recommendations Considered Harmful

With apologies to the GOTO statement, the recomendation below is truly harmful.
PAT CONROY ?!?!!?!
The flanking books I can see, but Pat Conroy? I admit that I once read “Prince of Tides,” but I was on vacation at a house with a limited library. Pat Conroy v. Danielle Steele; Conroy wins that one.
But how did Amazon [...]

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And now I know, I won’t make it to one hundred

I starred the year with the goal of reading 100 books. A couple of dense, lengthy ones in Q1 and Q2 combined with a slow two months in early summer, and I stand at 43. Far behind last year’s pace.
I’d have to averge 4.5 books per week to make it to 100. Time to reset. [...]

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The 2009 Book List…

Haven’t updated this since April, so of course my notes are a mess. Here’s the whole list, 2009 Q1-Q3;

Angler, (Gellman 2008) – 1/4/2009
Hot, Flat and Crowded, (Friedman 2008) – 1/14/2009
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Sedaris 2009) – 1/21/2009
How Fiction Works (Wood 2009) – 1/26/2009
Imperial Life in the Emerald City, inside Iraq’s green zone [...]

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I’ll have the Johnny Cash Cover 12″ Please

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3 Things Slate Does Very Well

1. The Explainer Column
“Answers to your questions about the news.”
Top-notch analysis; crispy clean copy.
Ex. “What’s ‘Unlawful Sexual Intercourse’? — And other questions from the Explainer’s Roman Polanski roundup.”
2. The Slatest
The read the news so you don’t have to.
3. News Dots
Visualizing the relationship of trending news topics. If someone asks you “What’s the semantic web?” Just [...]

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