A while ago (sometime last year that I don’t remember anymore) I came across a quick blurb in a now long-forgotten Google blog entry telling users exactly how to get their names verified for their Google Profile pages. It’s really simple, and free — the whole thing’s furnished by Knol, which has itself become somewhat [...]
As an early first addendum to the Primer on Twitter, I need to talk about #hashtags. There is a big problem with their misuse, and it’s only getting worse. Notice I did not say “abuse” of #hashtags. People play with fake #hashtags all the time. Suffice to say there is no harm in tweeting #hi5, [...]
For some strange reason, Twitter refuses to write a simple primer on how to use their service. It’d be so simple to make it the first page users see once they’ve made a new account, and yet here we are, with millions of people annoying the crap out of me with constant, relentless abuse of [...]