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The current financial crisis has many of us “tuned in” on TV and the internet. The same video content will likely be received differently on the internet than it is on TV, rooted in the expectations we attach to each. Our expectations of people in internet video and TV video are different. Executives doing internet video should be more Real than they can afford to be on TV.

Welcome to CrustyBytes, where as the tagline suggests, we focus on the connectedness of technology, business and brains. Brain science is going Open Source, which means it is freely available to you and me. Tech and Biz are well studied, although far from done. CrustyBtyes will look at look at Tech and Biz from a perspective of what we are learning about what goes on in our users’, colleagues’ and own heads.

Social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and others, take time, attention and energy. Deciding what it is worth is a settling of accounts according to social norms. For most of us, economics have little to do with it.

A year ago I asked “What are you using it for?’ almost every time someone invited me to join them on LinkedIn, … and got no answer.

Now I get lots of good answers to the same question. This is Part 1 of 2 in exploring the phenomenon.