SideBar: Google’s + Suspensions (Ham-fisted? High-handed?)
SideBar from me (Ben Tremblay): Do A-list really pay attention? see this from Guy Kawasaki’s “12 Most Enchanting Features of Google+” – #9. “It’s fun to watch Google smack down people who violate its terms of use.” Fun hunh. Really.
* Most Recent:
- RWW – “Google Plus Tells Pseudonym Lovers to Shove It”
+Saurabh Sharma – “Google+ Update: Common Name Grace Period”‘ - My Name Is Me – “Supporting your freedom to choose the name you use on social networks and other online services.”
- h/t +Crystal Rehula – United Nations, Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, 16 May 2011; Page 22, Point 84: “He [the Special Rapporteur] also calls upon States to ensure that individuals can express themselves anonymously online and to refrain from adopting real-name registration systems.” A.HRC.17.27_en.pdf
- +Simon Bridge – Simon’s Journal: “Pseudonyms update”
- danah boyd | apophenia – “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power; ““Real names” policies aren’t empowering; they’re an authoritarian assertion of power over vulnerable people. These ideas and issues aren’t new (and I’ve even talked about this before), but what is new is that marginalized people are banding together and speaking out loudly. And thank goodness.” [emph original --bdt]
- RWW – “Google Plus Bans Creator of Firefox, Facebook Product Director, For Using His Real Name”
- Documental.ly – “Another one bites the dust. Thanks Google+”
- O’Reilly Radar – Scaling Google+ – “Joseph Smarr of Google+ on early lessons, an API, and pseudonyms.”
- My Name Is Me – “My name is Rachel”; “For spiritual reasons as well as for intellectual ones, I believe in the value of letting people choose the names under which they are known — in offline spaces as well as online ones.”
- +Sandra Large – An open letter to G+ – Dear +Vic Gundotra and everyone else associated with the Google+ venture. [...] Since buying a computer and beginning to use the Internet, I have called myself Technogran. The reason why I decided to give myself a pseudonym rather than be known by my real name are actually pretty simple. …”
- Brigadoon Station – “Identity, Credibility and Anyonmyity”; see also +Kee Hinchley’s comment thread on +Betsy Hanes Perry’s “How Real Names improve Courtesy”
- Identity Woman – “Google+ and my “real” name: Yes, I’m Identity Woman”
- TechLiberation Front – “Google+ Stumbles Over Identity”
- skud – “An update on my Google Plus suspension”; Also: “Preliminary results of my survey of suspended Google+ accounts”; an update of “I’ve been suspended from Google+”
- +Scott Baker; PawPrint.net News – “The Google+ Real Names Policy”
- BBC Magazine – “Why does Google+ insist on having your real name?”
- Electronic Frontier Foundation – “A Case for Pseudonyms”
- Stowe Boyd – Google Responds #plusgate”
- GigaOM Tech News and Analysis – “Google+ and the loss of online anonymity”
- @GrrlScientist at Guardian.co.uk Science – “Google+ and pseudonymity: An open letter to @Google”
- +Violet Blue (an editorial on what I called, “Smoke and Mirrors”) – “+Vic Gundotra shared the announcement … described by a G+ community manager as “This is your feedback at work!” Um, no. It’s actually not.”
- +James Polley – “Here are the 12 comments to that post which have received +30 or higher (at the time of writing)”
- Phil Windley’s Technometria – “Google Plus: On Trust, Reputation, Pseudonyms, and Value”
- +Eric Raymond – “In a previous post on the realnames controversy, I suggested that it tangles together a large number of issues that Google probably shouldn’t try to solve all at once. Now I’m going to try to name and tag all these issues as an aid to discussion.”; previously: “Everyone on all sides of the G+ realnames controversy agrees that there are cases the present set of rules aren’t handling well, even if they differ on …”
- ZDNet – “Four Things Google Plus Could Do To Fix Google Plus”
- Geek Feminism Wiki – “Who is harmed by a “Real Names” policy?”
- Wired.com; Epicenter – “Google+ Identity Crisis: What’s at Stake With Real Names and Privacy”
- +Jay Freeman – “In the last couple days, Google has taken to quite actively enforcing its “real name” rule …
- Hack Education – “Should Students Use Pseudonyms Online?”
- Scripting News – “Google-Plus is going to be your bank account”; “now maybe that makes it clear why they want your real name on your Google-Plus accounts, and why they don’t want to screw around with corporate presences. Not such a problem for publications like TechCrunch or Mashable, which don’t move around a lot of money. But for any business like say an oil company (extreme example), they want to have all kinds of flows hooked up to your Google account.”
- Liminal states – Why it Matters: Google+ and Diversity“ (DRAFT!)
- Mashable – “Google Responds to Google+ Account Suspension Controversy”
- ZDNet – “Google revises G+ real name management policy“
- Digital Media | CNET News – “Google’s senior VP of social, +Vic Gundotra, explained Google’s logic for insisting on real names, as an attempt to set a positive tone: “Google VP: Why Google+ requires real names”.
- +Bradley Horowitz: “ I wanted to also more directly address some of what we’re learning and how we’re reacting to the feedback. Note that this isn’t a comprehensive “last word” on the topic …”
- +Doctor Popular (Suspended): Trapped in the Googlehole. – DocPop.org
- +M Monica: In response to +Sai’s post; Sai’s “Google+ requires you to use your “real” name. Unfortunately …”
- Gary Walker: Cheaper Than Paper: Privacy, strength, and the challenge facing Google
- +Janet D. Stemwedel: New post at Scientopia: Pseudonymity and Google -> Published Jul 25 2011 by Janet D. Stemwedel under Blogospheric science, Current events, Engineering, Professional ethics
- +Robert Scoble: “I talked with Google VP +Vic Gundotra tonight (disclaimer, he used to be my boss at Microsoft). He is reading everything we have written about names, and such. Both pro and con.”
- +Matt Cutts: I try not to share too much stuff about Google+ itself, but …
* My posts via TwitLonger:
- “CNet published “Google G+ faces thorny online identity issues”; my comment there.
- “In their G+ project has given us, the public, a look at how they get things done, more than we’d see”
- “If you’re interested in how Google treats people, how the explain their policy (and fail to do so)…”.
* Blog Posts (including on G+):
- on Point7: “Google+, the pseudonym banstick, and the netizen cultural schism”
- on CNet DeepTech: “Google+ faces thorny online identity issues”
- on TechCrunch: “Google Plus Has A Problem. Fear Not: I Have A Solution”
- +Emlyn O’Regan’s: “This account banning is the equivalent of the privacy blowout at the beginning of Buzz”, “now Random Geek is gone. ffs.” and “Google+ has a policy of only using real names (real world identities) in profiles. And they’re enforcing that policy with a big lumpy banstick.”.
- +Robert Scoble: “If you know someone that Google has suspended/deleted from Google+, add …” and, slightly related, “in all the noise about deleted profiles it’s interesting that I didn’t see anyone pointing out that Techcrunch’s founder, Michael Arrington, no longer has an account on Google+.”.
- +John Hardy: “Great to see +Robert Scoble receiving so much push-back on this issue.” and “Thanks Google. You fucked up AGAIN.”.
- +Rob Gordon: “No one has supported the idea of getting rid of fake profiles more than I have, but …”.
- +Jay Blanc: “Things that might get you suspended from G+”; “Time for more Share and Re-Sharing”; “Apparently confirmed. If Google force a European Account Holder to have” and +Kryptyk Physh’s comment thread on that post along with “Outstanding!”.
* Google docs:
- Public Policy Blog: “The freedom to be who you want to be…”.
NB: G+ suspended me for Bernard (ben) Tremblay, but they allow this: The Emperor – A meta-fictional entity and also such as Name X. Y. (plausible name with initials and punctuation) and Name O’Last, and Name “Nick” Last.
Some of WPLift’s WP resources
- WordPress Plugins
- News, Tutorials & Resources Roundup No.6
- Create a Social Network with WordPress & BuddyPress
- How To: Add a forum to WordPress with the bbPress plugin
- How To: Create a Knowledge Base using WordPress
- Plugin Launch: WPTurbo Autoblogging Plugin
- 10 things You can do Today to Improve Your WordPress blog
- 30 Unusual, Fresh and Creative WordPress Blog Designs 3
Zoom Tools and Functions
Demo | jQuery.popeye 2.0 | an inline lightbox alternative. Ace!
Top 30 Javascript Slideshows, Sliders and Carousels | Vivalogo Resources.
ThickBox 3.1. (Now deprecated; see the following list)
Cool Javascript Slideshow with Crossfade.
Reading up on “comments” again
- Code: Adding Recent Comments To Your WordPress Theme.
- Better WordPress Recent Comments – Better WordPress.
- Get Recent Comment with Gravatar without plugin / WordPress Tricks & Tips.
- Absolute Comments: Comment Manager with Instant Reply « planetOzh.
- How To: Rearrange WordPress Comments (Latest On Top) | WPThemesPlugin.com.
- Bram.us » My improved Pingbacks/Trackbacks & Comments separation for WP2.0.
A couple of items
Sweet Links plug-in for WordPress TinyMCE Advanced – That Web Guy Blog.
WordPress › Taxonomy Metadata � WordPress Plugins: “Taxonomy Metadata
Implements metadata functionality for taxonomy terms, including for tags and categories.”
10+ WordPress plugins for developers
10+ WordPress plugins for developers.
Addendum: EAVB_OCYZHQGLSV … my confirmation code for Empire Avenue. I’m still below $20; BUY BTREM!
WP Plugin Roundup
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Leave a Comment This will be an on-going project. I just started so there’s not a lot there right now; I’m going to create some blog posts (hope to use category hierarchy … that’s new for me) child pages and index them using this page.
- Sub-pages:
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- This is really appalling … does nobody use this stuff? Mis-direction, demos that don’t demo, link-loops … I’ve wasted my time on 5 or 6 plugins in a row, and I’m not picking them at random. This ain’t link-rust, this is folk not giving a shit. Sadly: business as usual.
WP references / tutorials
Section 9.3. Tutorials, References ripped from How to make a child theme for WordPress: A pictorial introduction for beginners – op111.net. (“Reasonable use”, yes?)
- codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development – Has a short section on child themes.
- extralogical.net/2008/08/theme-inheritance – In WordPress 2.7 you will be able to do more things with a child theme. The creator of the theme Tarski talks about the possibilities opened.
- htmldog.com – “The Best Practice Guide To XHTML and CSS”, by Patrick Griffiths. It really is the best!
- htmldog.com/reference/cssproperties – “Information about all of the valid properties belonging to the CSS 2.1 standard”.
- htmldog.com/reference/htmltags – “Information about all of the valid tags belonging to the latest version of strict XHTML”.
- reference.sitepoint.com/css – SitePoint CSS Reference.
- themeshaper.com/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-theme-against-upgrades
- The author of the theme “Thematic” explains how to make child themes. — The alliteration is unavoidable!
- themeshaper.com/functions-php-wordpress-child-themes – Another article by the author of Thematic: How to use custom PHP functions in your child theme.
- wangenweb.com/2008/07/creating-wordpress-child-themes – Another how-to on child themes, this one by the designer of Basic2Col.
Special Report: “Year One of Organizing for America: The Permanent Field Campaign in a Digital Age” | techPresident
Special Report: “Year One of Organizing for America: The Permanent Field Campaign in a Digital Age”
January 14, 2010 — Today we are publishing a techPresident special report on the first year of Organizing for America (OFA), drawing on new interviews with congressional staff in both parties, former Obama campaign staff, and 70 activists from the OFA grassroots. This report — the most comprehensive review of OFA’s work to date — is authored by The Nation’s Ari Melber,
