Jedidiah 'Jedi' Alex Koh is the Founder of Coaching Changes Lives, Asia's leading Coaching Firm Specializing in Team Leadership Development. Leadership renewal and succession planning has been, and ...

If you want to follow conversation threads relating to this show on social media—whether Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, Tumblr—you know to look for the hashtag: #99pi. In our current digital age, ...

Not being a tweeter, I rarely think about the octothorpe, now known more commonly as a hashtag. I do mark students’ papers by hand, though, and one thing I tend to insert — when no one is spelled as ...

In his new book, “Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks,” Keith Houston reveals the stories behind esoteric punctuation marks, from the pilcrow (¶) to ...

Language is supposed to help us describe the world. So why does it leave us pointing at things and saying “that little ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The technology field is ripe with peculiar acronyms, vendor names and abbreviations. To compound ...

The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex–whatever you call it, the four-stroke cross-hatch possibly born at Bell The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex–whatever you call it, the ...

From the Romans to Twitter, the hash sign – or octothorpe – has had a rich history, and now this innocuous little character has found a mighty resurgence as the hashtag. What happened along the way?

We haven't seen a typographical resurrection like it since the @, an obscure accounting symbol meaning "at the rate of", was pressed into service to form the first email address in 1971. According to ...

The hash, the pound sign, the number sign, the hex—whatever you call it, the four-stroke cross-hatch possibly born at Bell On ancient maps, # was sometimes used to indicate the presence of a village.