Andrew Hart

Online News Production and Social Media Editing

Another word for Wordnik

Recently came across Wordnik, and have been growing more fond of it each day. Initially, it was a utility: looking up words, finding synonyms and the like. I discounted the romantic claim from Wordnik’s “About” page: “Wordnik is a new way to discover meaning.” I can now appreciate this.

Give Wordnik a word, and it will return definitions, examples, related words, lists, comments, images and audio. There is also a community (meh), a Word of the Day and random words. To boot, the site is well designed, making it enjoyable to browse. Thus, my brief synonym consult turns into a deep-dive exploration of language.

Kudos to you Wordnik, you have been bookmarked.

This entry was written by Andrew Hart, posted on September 15, 2012 at 4:55 am, filed under Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.



Twitter Search Operators

I highly recommend exploring Twitter’s advanced search capability. Doing so can help turn your overwhelming and sometimes nonsensical streams into manageable and strategic discovery tools. Explore the capabilities of Twitter’s interface, and for those seeking to strengthen their command of the feature, familiarize yourself with the syntax used. This guide from  Twinitor shares a substantial list.

TEXT

  • twitter search : containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator.
  • “happy hour” containing the exact phrase “happy hour”.
  • love OR hate containing either “love” or “hate” (or both).
  • beer -root containing “beer” but not “root”.
  • #haiku containing the hashtag “haiku”.
  • from:alexiskold sent from person “alexiskold”.
  • to:techcrunch sent to person “techcrunch”.
  • @mashable referencing person “mashable”.
  • “happy hour” near:”san francisco” containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”.
  • near:NYC within:15mi sent within 15 miles of “NYC”.
  • superhero since:2010-12-27 containings

[SOURCE: Twinitor]

This entry was written by Andrew Hart, posted on September 9, 2012 at 4:03 pm, filed under Social Media. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.