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Home Archives for July 2011

FAQ: What headset do you use on TWiG?

Posted By: Christineon: July 28, 2011In: About Smarterware

Viewers often ask what headset I wear on This Week in Google; here’s a complete list of all the gear I use for the show with handy-dandy links. Read more

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

Posted By: Christineon: July 28, 2011In: About Smarterware

Google+’s recent enforcement of a “real names” policy strikes me as an engineer’s approach to accountability—black-and-white, when there’s plenty of grey.... Read more

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The First Time I Understood the Value of Anonymity

Posted By: Christineon: July 26, 2011In: About Smarterware

There’s a great conversation going on about why social networks, specifically Google+, shouldn’t require that all its users register using their “real” names. To catc... Read more

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To China and Back

Posted By: Christineon: July 25, 2011In: About Smarterware

I just returned to the States from a trip to China, where I toured Beijing, Shanghai, and surrounding areas. I climbed the Great Wall, walked through Tian’anmen Square, “ate... Read more

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Kevin Kelly’s Six Months to Live

Posted By: Christineon: July 25, 2011In: About Smarterware

This oldie-but-goodie 1995 episode of This American Life features Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired and Cool Tools blogger. His story of a “new beginning” had me welled up in a Beijin... Read more

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Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs”

Posted By: Christineon: July 11, 2011In: About Smarterware

Charlie Park says the sparkline’s lesser-known sibling, the slopegraph, is about to get its day in the sun. I’m already thinking about interesting ways to use these in ThinkUp. Read more

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Blogger/Twitter co-founder Evan Williams on blogging’s future

Posted By: Christineon: July 08, 2011In: About Smarterware

What’s changed is that “blogging as we knew it” is no longer the easiest way to express oneself online, so it is not the choice for the most casual users. You have to be a bit... Read more

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This Is a Social Media Background Check

Posted By: Christineon: July 07, 2011In: About Smarterware

Mat Honan, who is ripping it up at Gizmodo, on employers running social media background checks on job candidates: We ran background checks on six Gizmodo employees, including our editor in... Read more

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iTerm2 Hits Version 1.0

Posted By: Christineon: July 07, 2011In: About Smarterware

Awesome, free, open source Mac OS X Terminal replacement offers a bunch of features over Terminal.app. Worth mouseless copy, paste history, and instant replay alone. (via) Read more

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Google+ Help: Public Profiles

Posted By: Christineon: July 05, 2011In: About Smarterware

While “the stream” in Google+ gets tweaked for better privacy control, Google Profiles are now required to be public. From the help document: We believe that using Google Profile... Read more

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Google+ and Building Better Online Privacy Models

Posted By: Christineon: July 05, 2011In: About Smarterware

Apologies to those of you following me on Google+: this post is a rehash of conversations I had this weekend on the service. The original conception of the Facebook “Wall” was ba... Read more

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Andy Hertzfeld on Giving Credit Where Credit’s Due

Posted By: Christineon: July 01, 2011In: About Smarterware

Now some people are saying that I’m responsible for the broad visual refresh now rolling out across Google, which couldn’t be further from the truth – in fact, I’m no... Read more

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