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Betty Fussell: "It's as clear as Blu-ray that 'connection, connection, connection' has replaced that old real-estate canard about 'location.' Time and place, as I've known them for eight decades, have gone in a twinkle. Now linkage is all and, believe me, I'm all for it. In fact, thank you Steve Jobs, for linking the Whole Earth Catalogue to a microchip and for naming your first global-revolutionary techno device for a fruit. Whatever the actual story behind the company's naming, we know that this was the fruit named in a major fateful story about man's original Garden."Betty Fussell: "It's as clear as Blu-ray that 'connection, connection,... more
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Wow… Stunning! But what the heck this image is? It looks beautiful but question stands still. Let me tell you briefly, it is a graph plotted between a pair of cities depending on number of Facebook friends between those two.Wow… Stunning! But what the heck this image is? It looks beautiful but question... more
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Sometimes it pays off to always be connected...
Chris Connell
Julie Cain
Directed/Edited by Taylor Engel
Produced by Dale Fagan
Camera Operator Josh Bishop
Special Thanks Blake EngelSometimes it pays off to always be connected...
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Today I looked at my calendar, and I read that it's Chevy Chase's birthday. I love Chevy Chase. Unfortunately I failed, because his birthday was two week's ago. Today is Charley Chase's birthday. I searched the internet and discovered this video.
As it turns out, that Charley Chase isn't renowned for her comic prowess.
Today is actually the birthday of the late vaudevillian performer, Charley Chase. Chase worked with the Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and The Three Stooge. He was a director, a comedian and songwriter.
He also worked with the comedienne Marion Byron.
This video shows a bunch of her comedy clips.
The compiler of this video uses, the song Black Cow by Steely Dan. Well Guess who was in the band that would become Steely Dan? That's right, mister October 8th himself, Chevy Chase.
Coincidence?
Well get this Charley Chase was born in Baltimore. Baltimore is only 36.7 miles from Chevy Chase, Maryland.
When you Google "36.7" the first hit is for a boat company. Well Chevy Chase, was in Caddy Shack, which had a memorable boat scene.
Coincidence?
Chevy Chase can be connected to anything, be careful, this could be much bigger than we previously thought.
(brought to you by the Glenn Beck School of Logic.)Today I looked at my calendar, and I read that it's Chevy Chase's birthday.... more
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Seriously? I've been thinking about online connections lately, and it's interesting to realize that I have different methodologies when it comes to connections on various sites.
For example, Twitter is a far more open community. I follow people on Twitter based on interest, not real world ties or relationships. Sure, I follow people I interact with offline on a regular basis: co-workers, family, and friends. But the bulk of the people I follow on Twitter fall into a pool I like to call "people I find interesting." They say intelligent things, pass interesting links, and entertain in 140 characters.
Facebook is an entirely different story altogether. When it comes to friends on my Facebook profile, I opt for personal relationships over random encounters. I've made a few exceptions here and there, but for the most part I try to keep Facebook a little more personal than public.
Over on flickr, I prefer a mix between the two approaches, specifically because I can control the privacy settings on each and every piece of my content. Family and friends get to see all of my photos, whereas random connections only get the filtered "public" view. It's my choice.
When it comes to Current, our connections work a little differently. We've received suggestions for improvements, and are always open to more. But it does seem fitting to go over some of the ways connections work on Current, what they allow you to do, and how they influence the flow of content on the site.
While the debate over the preferred way to consume content on Current has largely wavered between the "I prefer the homepage" and the "I prefer my group" camps, there is a third, oft-overlooked, "dark horse" candidate in the mix -- My Current.
My Current is a connection-based customizable experience, if you think of connections on Current in the same way I do. You see, I look at Current connections as feeds, a quick way to influence what type of content shows up in My Current. If my contacts are all voting or commenting on one story, I know I'll need to check that story out. If someone continuously posts or votes on stories I don't care to see, I can remove them from my connections and keep My Current feed streamlined.
This is just one way to think about connections on Current. What about you? How do you manage your connections here? I'm interested to hear what you think, so leave a comment.
Related:
Connect with me on Current
Follow us on Twitter
Friend us on Facebook
Check out Current TV photos on Flickr
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Hey Currentians,
Yesterday I highlighted the release of our commenting upgrade, but another aspect of our released slipped under the radar: Following. If you've visited a profile page recently, you may have noticed that your connections module no longer exists.
Don't panic! We've replaced the connections module with a followers module, which clearly lays out a new distinction between the people who follow you vs. the people you follow.
Now you can easily tell who you are following and who is following you, and then you can make adjustments accordingly. As always, the ability to manage your blocked lists is rolled into these lists so you can keep track of who you have on your "don't bother me" list as well.
Additionally, we've made some changes to the profile layout again. Obviously the addition of a "Follow" button was necessary, but we also tweaked our "Send a message" button as well.
For this first iteration, we are laying the groundwork for further improvements to our sharing and private messaging systems on Current. We'll post updates to those as they arise. For now, follow and be followed!
Like the changes? Have some feedback? Please be sure to share your reactions in the comments below, and if you notice any bugs or have any recommendations visit our Get Satisfaction support page and leave us some feedback.
Thanks!
mario
Hey Currentians,
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Hanging out with the Hollywood elite can seem fun on the surface---but that's just what it is: surface. Most of these people aren't real. This is a story about a girl who befriends a famous shoe designer who IS real and kind but introduces her to the L.A. she loathes.Hanging out with the Hollywood elite can seem fun on the surface---but that's... more
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Once past saying 'hello' and 'how are you?' to someone you've just met, what is next?
How do we make friends and get to know other people?
Psychologists have talked about the importance of body language, physical appearance and clothing but they've not been so keen on what we actually talk about. A recent study put participants in same-sex and opposite-sex pairings and told them to get to know each other over 6 weeks (Rentfrow & Gosling, 2006). Analyzing the results, they found the most popular topic of conversation was music. What is it about music that's so useful when we first meet someone and what kind of information can we extract from the music another person likes?
"how good is music as a measure of personality?"
The number of people who talked about music was surprisingly high. In the first week on average 58% of the pairs discussed music compared to 37% of all the other categories of conversation combined. Other categories included books, movies, TV, football and clothes.
Why then do we use music as a first port of call in getting to know another person? We probably think that music is indirectly telling us something about the other person's personality. For this reason, the second question this study tried to answer was: how good is music as a measure of personality?
Top 10 personalities
To measure this, participants were asked to judge people's personality solely on their top 10 list of songs.
"...a person's openness to experience was best communicated by their top 10 list of songs."
This was compared to participants results on a standard type of personality test measuring the big five personality traits: openness to experience, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stability.
Overall the results showed that music preferences were reasonably accurate in conveying aspects of personality. Of the five traits, it was a person's openness to experience that was best communicated by their top 10 list of songs, followed by extroversion and emotional stability. On the other hand, music preferences didn't say much about whether a person was conscientious or not.
What some music preferences mean for personality:
* Likes vocals: extroverted
* Likes country: emotionally stable. On the face of it, this is bizarre really because country music is all about heartache. Either the emotionally stable are attracted to country music or it has a calming effect on the unstable!
* Likes jazz: intellectual
(Hey, hey What happened to rock, alt, punk, emo, techno, j-rock, pop, RAP, classical, tribal, new age, folk, uh, that stuff my parents listen to, no clue what in the hell it is, retro-rock, metal, banjo, bluegrass, beer-drinking, and every other music I can't think of at the moment? a.s.)
This raises the question of why people listen to particular types of music. One theory is that people simply find some music more pleasant for aesthetic or cognitive reasons. Another is that people use music to regulate their mood: I want to get hyper for a night out so I put on some dance music. Another is that music is related to identity; people listen to music that expresses they way they see themselves. It seems likely that a combination of all these theories is probably true.
Despite this limitation it seems that talking about music might be a very powerful way to make a connection with another person.
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