Google+ing

Yeah, now that I'm on, it does have appeal.
Listened to an interview with Capn Crunch on the TWIT.TV network show Triangulation this morning. John Draper talked about the early days with direct programing and blue boxes.
As a J-school student at UT in Knoxville in the early '70s I rubbed elbows with many of the sons/daughters of scientists at Oak Ridge. They were into the programing. I knew I didn't have the patience to work on lines of code but I also knew I wanted to benefit from the results of their labor.
I wanted to be able to use the programs not create them.
It took a couple more decades but that has come to pass.

Tech thoughts from the fringe--Sept. 20, 2011

Well, Google has opened up Google + to the masses today. How long will it be before the first adopters move on to something else.

Now that the club is nolonger exclusive, it won't be so interesting.

Note, this is the last week of daily episodes of CNET's BOL show. Tom's departure to TWIT.TV hurt them more than they are willing to admit. Molly has been paired with BT of late but that hasn't had the smarts of the Tom-led show.

When BT breaks into song or Molly resorts to the nerd voice, I leave.

Twit has become the center of the tech podcast universe. The programing appeals to someone like me who is on the fringes of the tech world. I work running the website of a small market daily newspaper. As such, I am interested in breakthroughs on the tech news front. Twit provides that information without making you think you are sitting in a sandbox.

Just saying.