Aug 06

Google Plus invites

If you’re interested in trying Google Plus, and haven’t gotten an invite yet, you can click here.

It’s still too early to say where G+ is going, in my opinion. A lot of the technorati appear to be using it, but I think for some of them the appeal is that it hasn’t been adopted by absolutely everyone.

When I write a blog post, I’ve tended to link to it from both Facebook and Google Plus, which is probably annoying to the people who follow me from both places. But I’m trying to cast to the widest possible net.

Some of the people on Leo Laporte’s TWIT network say they’ve been using Google Plus as a substitute, not for Facebook, but for Twitter, which makes no sense at all to me.

I really do like Google Plus’s “circles” feature, which lets you easily decide with which groups you want to share a particular status update  or link.

Apr 21

Idle chatter

Because rehearsals for the play started about the time real competition for “American Idol” did, I haven’t been able to watch the show until the past couple of weeks, and so I’m late to the party and still learning who’s who.

An old college classmate of mine, Kelly Cotter, has been doing Idol recaps on Facebook. (I don’t know if you can see them if you’re not on Facebook — probably not.) The RSS feed is here.

I thought the arrangement of “Hot Stuff” was inspired and could not believe the judges who pounded on it (even while praising the actual performance).