Referring to “this cell” using Excel conditional formatting
Since writing this post, three simpler, better ways of solving the problem have been submitted in the comments section. Feel free to read this post, but look to the comments for the solution! If you...
View ArticleA simple perl script to interrogate the Technorati API
Sometimes (for instance when I’m doing the research for the blogger typology) you need to get a whole load of Technorati data for a whole load of blogs. This research can (of course) be done by hand....
View ArticleThe Technorati Authority Yahoo! Pipe
Yahoo! Pipe to pull Technorati API data for multiple blogs Over the holidays, I started playing with a new Yahoo! pipe to pull information from Technorati into a spreadsheet. The reasons why I wanted...
View ArticleAutomating Marshall Kirkpatrick’s “Social Media Cheatsheet” process with...
Yahoo! Pipe for automating Marshall Kirkpatrick's Social Media CheatSheet processMarshall Kirkpatrick has published an excellent process for getting up to speed with what the big issues are in your...
View ArticleCounting Twitter followers
TwitterCounter, the service that tells you how many people followed a given Twitter user on a given date (among other things) has an API – so I thought I’d take a look at it to see whether I could...
View ArticleA first stab at a perl script to create Twitter friend/follow matrices
Geek alert: if the title of this post isn’t a dead giveaway I should tell you — unless you’re interested in APIs and badly-put-together bits of code — this probably isn’t for you. I’ve recently found...
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