Apparently, something called Project Upstream is sending random messages to two people and then hooking the two people up to instigate a conversation.  Neither person knows that they ’sent’ a message first.  Usually, (or, as in my case, always), the messages are ignored by both parties.  After receiving a few of these, I Googled around and found only the nixiepixel article above, though she links to some other info as well.

(Via Greg’s new blog Crotchety Times.)

ON A RECENT bright March morning, Mr. Hoppin was on the 19th floor of 250 Broadway, in a conference room in the Senate majority leader’s office, conducting a meeting with the team he had been quietly building since he was hired on Jan. 29. Their mission? To upgrade the New York State Senate and bring it into the 21st century with technology. For some members of the CIO team, it was their first full week on the job.