I don’t link to Twitter updates nearly as much as I used to – largely because I’m not using Twitter as much as I used to – but one of the headaches of doing so was always how best to reference them. Yes, each update has its own permalink and you can include it as a URL in the post, but given how short Twitter updates are I always felt doing that was wasting the readers’ time.
Alternatively, you could also also just reference the update in its entirety – …

Wordle is a simple yet visually interesting tool I ran across recently, which enables users to create word clouds based on provided content. As the site explains:
“The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.”
It’s an entertaining tool to use as …