You have 10 or more people all tweeting away on a single account, but to those watching are wondering “who’s the one clicking submit”.

It’s easy to add a quick signature to each post, i.e. “^NK”

But if I am a newer listener, or I’ve stumbled across you through a retweet, how am I going to decipher these signatures?

Stumble over to CBC Radio3’s @ShawHelp’s twitter, and you’ll see a great solution. Use the background image. It’s common practice to use the background image to post a logo in the corner, and putting a list of on air talent with their signatures makes it clear.

Remember, you don’t have the entire page.

Because computer screen sizes are different, and there is the twitter logo and tweets to fight against, I would keep the information in a 150px margin. And if you compare Radio 3’s background, I wouldn’t go any lower then theirs.

Update April 5, 2012: Look’s like CBC Radio 3 stopped doing it, but @ShawHelp does it.

We’ve heard that the iPad will change your life, but will it change the way you blend?

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This looks like it’ll be good.

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Surfer Child by Tim Macpherson

I think I just did a school paper on this.

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http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/skinput

We present Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as a finger input surface. In particular, we resolve the location of finger taps on the arm and hand by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. We collect these signals using a novel array of sensors worn as an armband. This approach provides an always-available, naturally-portable, and on-body interactive surface. To illustrate the potential of our approach, we developed several proof-of-concept applications on top of our sensing and classification system.

Desney Tan – Microsoft Research

Dan Morris – Microsoft Research Harrison, C., Tan, D. Morris, D. 2010. Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface. To appear in Proceedings of the 28th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, April 10 – 15, 2010). CHI ‘10. ACM, New York, NY.

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I’m assuming Darth Vader is Samuel L. Jackson

OK Go did it again. One take wonders.

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