John Kovalic wins the Interwebz

http://www.dorktower.com/2010/09/08/dork-tower-wednesday-september-8-2010/

How similar are our friends' lists?

I am always fascinated by my LJ Friends' List.

I have an amazing variety of folks on it, though they do fall into some discernible groups.

That means I will see some posts a dozen or more times.

I am curious about you.

Over the course of 110 posts on my friends' list, there were 14 posts about bifemmefatale's missing daughter.

That means at least one post on each refresh of my friends' list.

I am not looking for commentary on raising the volume, but rather I am curious as you whether you have seen it fewer times, about the same or more.

I am especially interested in hearing from people who have not seen it until this point.

PS: Unrelated: I will concede that Dreamwidth gets points for using "Reading List," not "Friends' List."

Wednesday afternoon: Some interesting reading for you . . .

It’s been a good day so far.

I have gotten a lot of work done on resumes for folks, but of course I have also been bouncing around the Internet a bit.

You get the “benefit” of that, because I am going to share links I have run into that I think might be of interest. I have posted a couple on facebook, but this is a better place for discussion.

1. The local Zoning Board shot down what I thought was an excellent plan to re-locate a local Soup Kitchen that has to be moved because it’s building is being sold. It is currently on one of the most run-down streets in town and the plan was to move it to a much better building eight-tenths of a mile away in a mixed-use neighborhood.

I am bothered by the board focusing on the local impact, not the city-wide impact and puzzled by the fact that supporters didn’t turn out.

2. nq3x has pointed out that someone wants to build a casino in Gettysburg.  If you know me, you know I am completely passionate about the battle and that I survived living and teaching in southeastern Connecticut during the time that two Native American casinos went up and changed the region forever.

3. On the lighter side, milkshakes with a kick.

4. A great video of jousting in Canada.

5. Snagged from someone else on LJ. Jehovah’s Witnesses vs. Atheists.

6. A dear friend sent me this link, which proves that Matthew Inman, who writes “The Oatmeal,” has a webcam implanted in one of my cats. (There are a couple of NSFW frames farther down). Had John Kovalic not won the Internet already today, these folks would have.

7. There are any number of newspaper articles on the QS world university rankings (Cambridge over Harvard!), and here’s the actual list.

Follow-up on "How similar are our friends' lists?"

This is a follow-up to a post from earlier Wednesday.

First of all, I was fascinated by the discussion and the various ways the initial post propagated.

One of the things folks mentioned was that there are certain folks who serve as a "nexus" and get this type of information out at a fairly high level.

The folks who had seen bifemmefatale's initial post on her missing daughter multiple times tended to be from my subset of friends who are at the intersection of science fiction cons and, for lack of a better phrase "non-traditional lifestyles." 

My SCA friends, who make up the majority of the folks here, didn't see it unless they were part of one or both of those groups.

Oddly, it didn't hit bipolypagangeek until shortly before I posted this morning.

I just ran through to skip=150 to the first time I saw it posted, at 8:56 p.m. Tuesday, from bottledgoose. (I also checked, and the initial post went up at 7:06 p.m. Tuesday.

In the last 150 posts on my friends list, the posting is mentioned 19 times, including mine. A couple are second posts for a variety of reasons.

For the heck of it, and because I think it might interest folks, here's the order of folks I saw it posted  from:

bottledgoose    hughcasey   yendi    joedecker     matociquala     shadesong     cbpotts     jennythe_reader   jaclyrinbipolypagangeek     apocalypticbob   maverick_weirdo     Me    kradical     desyana      zarhooie

Note: There are a number of others who saw it but did not re-post it, but the commonalities seem to remain.

OK, so quick analysis. Up to my post, there are a couple of folks who are around the edge of the SCA, plus jaclyrin and apocalypticbob 

I believe that everyone in that group is either into science fiction or attend cons regularly or both. There are a number of authors there.

derekl1963 asked about geography. First off, my LJ is skewed to New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvaia.

Looking at the re-post list, I see maybe four or five from NY, several from Mass, several from Connecticut, and a couple others from the Northeast. I see one California and one Midwest. None from the area where the post originated.

In terms of people who said they saw it three or more times, I saw folks from the Pacific Northwest, New York and Kentucky. One of them said she had a lot of friends around Carbondale.

Again, reflective of my LJ, the vast majority of those who said they saw it once or not at all were from the Northeast.

I am interested in thoughts and observations.

LiveJournal and facebook . . .

The topic of how folks use LiveJournal as compared to how they use facebook has come up a couple of times in the last few days, so I figure I will throw it out there.

I came very late to facebook, 11 months ago to be exact, while I have been on LJ for more than seven years.

My use of facebook has grown as time has gone on, and while there's not a terrible lot of cross-over, I will sometimes post links there and then post them here. I will also post a link to LJ or one of my blogs there as well.

I do not make an explicit connection between this LJ and my facebook, which is under my mundane name, but anyone who has ever gotten an e-mail from me knows my real name anway. I certainly *can* see the reasoning for keeping them completely separate.

I have about twice as many friends on facebook as I do here. My LJ friends are mainly from the SCA and from cons and LARPs, as well as simply being folks I have met on LJ.

facebok includes a lot of those folks, even more SCA people, folks I grew up with, kids I taught at Ledyard and Peabody and old people I mean people I went to high school with. I do share my views pretty openly in both places, but I am more open, especially about sexuality here. (Just be happy I am not *that* open about it, even here).

I prefer LJ for more in-depth discussions, like this one.

OK, that was unstructured.

Thoughts?