Me: “Get off my lawn!” (w/apologies to Grayson D.) I’m thinking about finally closing comments on my lengthy anti-hashtag screed from February of 2008. My opinion of them hasn’t changed much. But they have taken on more frequent use within Twitter, and in the meantime Twitter usage has grown, spread out, taken on more users… Continue reading I Get Older; The Blog Entries Stay The Same Age
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Introducing Hashpip.es
At SXSW I had quite a few hallway conversations about what I consider the Twitter hashtag problem. As a constructive contribution to the ongoing discussion, in between sessions I threw together a way to strip out hashtags from Twitter a account and create a new, hashtag-free account using Yahoo Pipes and Twitterfeed. You can see… Continue reading Introducing Hashpip.es
Why I Unfollow People Who Use Hashtags On Twitter
Update(finally:) Comments closed below. Followed up here. Explained in less than 140 characters: What’s #irritating about #this sentence? It kind of looks like a representation of someone with food in their mouth while they talk. I’ve been asked about a half-dozen times in the last couple of days what’s behind my curmudgeonly policy of removing… Continue reading Why I Unfollow People Who Use Hashtags On Twitter