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Da Tech Guy Ruling Da Northeast Posted: 28 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST I love it when good folks work their tails off, push their talents farther than they ever thought they could, and find success. My friend Pete Da Tech Guy was in a bit of a hard spot a while back. Out of work and unable to find a job in his chosen field, he needed to put food on the table and rebuild a career. Daunting stuff. Most folks, and I’ve been one of them, would have played it safe, found a job at WalMart or some place like that and struggled back up the career ladder. Not Pete. He went the other direction, where all the scary stuff lives, and launched a Saturday radio show. Unlike a lot of show hosts, who get paid a salary, Pete had to live off the advertising he brought into the show (did I mention the scary stuff), but darned if he didn’t bring in the ad sales and the audience. He’s made a success out of a crazy idea that would have scared the bejeezus out of most of us. Now, he’s going syndicated. As of this week (well officially Feb 2nd) DaTechGuy on DaRadio goes into Syndication through Cameo Productions! Yes DaTechGuy will be on DaRadio on 3 count 'em 3 radio stations in New England at its new time Saturdays 1-3 PM EST Tune into AM 1390 Plymouth, WBNW 1120 Concord or 970 WESO in Southbridge to find me on your dial, or simply pick up the feed from here the Money Matter Radio Network. The deal won’t change, not yet at least. He’ll still need to bring in the advertisers and the audience, but if he did it at one station, I wouldn’t bet against him doing it at three, would you? I know he has some plans to make podcasts of his show available regularly as soon as his syndication folks get DaShow up and running, so you’ll be able to listen to him there as well as on the radio or over the internet. Pete’s doing great things up there in Massachusetts and I couldn’t be more happy nor more proud of him. Listen in one Saturday. I bet you’ll really like what he’s building.

Hashtag No More, in French Posted: 27 Jan 2013 02:23 PM PST Oh, those silly French. The French government is redefining hashtag with a Gallic touch. The country that has an academy devoted solely to the use of the French language has given its official seal of approval to a new word for the Twittersphere: mot-dièse. For those of you not versed in the ways of Twitter, a hashtag is this little number-sign symbol — # — and when you put it in front of a word, it takes on several special functions, the chief of which is the whole term becomes searchable. The hashtag is a versatile little tool that lets you find posts on a certain subject or centered around a certain event. For instance, those who were are yesterday’s March for Life in Washington, DC could tag their photos and tweets with the #MarchForLife hashtag and…voila! There they are. The funny thing, though, is that a hashtag has to be an unbroken string of letters, so mot-dièse could not, itself, be a hashtag. If you hashtagged (wait..how do you turn that French phrase into a verb?) the term, you’d get a nicely-broken tag that ended at the dash. Lastly a hashtag isn’t a sharp sign, which is what mot-dièse actually means. This (♯) is a sharp symbol. A hashtag, which you probably also know from your phone as a pound sign, leans the other direction. Perhaps a better term in French would be mot de hachage which is the rough French translation of “hash word” though I don’t think that’s the right “hash”. Maybe we need to get some French social media nerds on the case. (Photo Credit: Tom Rayner)

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