Guagua Pública

Follow along with me as I apply keyword search gymanastics with Paper.Li...

When examining the advanced search options for Twitter Search, I begun to see the strong possibility to really do some culture hacking. After seeing a few examples I hope you see why!

Here are some of the examples so far, each with a little bit of the reasoning behind each experiment:

• This was my first basic experiment. I thought to my self, let's use this auto-content generator to phish for followers using important keywords that support Guagua Pública. The result was: "Guagua Pública: Cross Media Authors." That was a simple mash-up between (free culture OR open source OR transmedia).
• Another riff off of the same topic, more or less, was a mash-up on (storycube OR storytelling OR narrative OR transmedia): "Story Cube Dialogue."
• And here's a bunch where I just did the first things that popped into my mind, and got just plain stupid:
  
  • When looking at the advanced Twitter Search screen I noticed that you could search for "positive" tweets and I decided to mash that up with tweets with a question and a link, what do you get? Well, you get "Positively Random Questions," but of course, you saw that coming, right? Oh yeah, apparently the search string for that is ":) ? filter:links".
  • To give an opposing viewpoint, I decided to go with negative retweets; that search string is ":( include:retweets". The result was the  "Fear Mongers United."
  • Then in homage to one of my favorite movies, "Dude, where's my car?" I created "Dude, you've got a tattoo!" which just looks for any tweet with either "su-weeeeet-ta" or "duuuud-da," well more like sweet or dude, but you get the point. 
  • On What The Trend, I found that hashtags (#verysexy, #notsexy, #thatssexy) were trending, so I dropped not sexy, cause who really wants to see that, and produced: "Sex, sex, and more sex."
• I finally got around to trying out some location based examples. First I realized that the locatin based search strings don't yet work in Paper.li, so I had to go with a location keyword. My first attempt was:
• "San Juan Daily Links," where I just included ("San Juan" filter:links) in the search string.
• Followed quickly by "Joe Blow from Kokomo," which I tried to give as positive of a spin as possible, because heaven knows, Kokomo needs all the help it can get.
• My latest experiment was built off of the top trend #thingsthedevilinvented, I call it: Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll

While I'm still trying to iron out the kinks in a few, most of my experiments have been successful, and produced an interesting result. However, my experiments came to a halt when I ran into a small obstacle. The number of papers is limited per account. I bet if I think hard, I can figure out a way to keep this experiment running....stay tuned to find out if I do.