Peggy K's Creator News

It’s hard to believe it, but 10 years have passed since I launched what is now Peggy K's Creator News. I set up the blog originally as a place to post easily linkable tutorials on the integration of Google+ and YouTube. It was pretty confusing and the ins and outs were not well docume,nted in Google’s help centers, so this started as a reference guide. The first post on peggyktc.com was a tutorial on how to unlink your YouTube channel from Google+ and how to create a channel using something other than your real name. What’s in a (domain) name? I chose the peggyktc.com domain for this blog to give my main Google+ Page a memorable custom URL, which was based on the linked domain. PeggyK(dot)com was sadly already taken, and no, that Peggy K is not me. The “TC” referred to the fact I was a “Top Contributor” in the Google Help Communities. And I still am, although it’s Google Product Experts now. I eventually added more tutorials about using Google+ (even withou...

Thirty years ago today, I was living in Boston. Working into the evening, the radio was tuned to Game 3 of the so-called "Bay Bridge World Series", between the Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants. I grew up in the Bay Area, and have always been an A's fan, but I wasn't paying attention to the pre-game chatter. So when one of my colleagues exclaimed that there was an earthquake, my first thought was that he was joking. There had been some joking about that possibility during the series, and I thought maybe he was just giving me some grief. But it was real. At 5:04 PM Pacific time, on October 17, 1989, the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake struck. The double-decker Cypress Freeway in west Oakland collapsed, killing dozens of commuters in their cars; the landfill under San Francisco's Marina district liquified, causing fires and houses to crumble; the Bay Bridge was severely damaged; and buildings collapsed throughout the region. In those first hours, t...