It’s the start of a beautiful weekend. Whether it’s raining or shining outside, if you’re reading this you can probably count yourself among the most fortunate folks on the planet.
Perhaps you’re feeling particularly adventurous. You should check out the new “Surprise Me” feature.
To activate, go to your Personal Settings page, check the appropriate box, and save.
I’m not going to tell you exactly what it does. If you’re open to new things and serendipitity in your blogging life try leaving it on as you go about your normal blogging activities of posting, commenting, checking your stats, and such, and see what pops up.
Enjoy the weekend, let me know what you think, and on Monday I’ll be able to reveal more.
Update 1: This was the result of a collaboration with the artist Evan Roth at the Rhizome Seven on Seven event, where we just presented it. As I said, there will be more on Monday in the New York Times. 🙂
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how about that cat????
What’s the surprise?
New to wordpress, but I ticked it anyway. Lets find out what it does then.
I scrolled the comments to see what the surprise might be. Right now, I only want/need pleasant surprises. To check or not to check (the surprise me box), that is the question? So, is this a pleasant surprise?
Congratulations, Matt! Excellent feature and a real surprise. Every time different.
Just see and press the option Humanize (Statistics), and then you have the possibility to explore new motherlands…
I am ready to be surprised, but I don’t believe in serendipity. Jw.
hmmm… curiosity killed the blogger?
OMG I used the “Surprise Me” and yeah I was TOTALLY SURPRISED! I totally LOLed.
suprised??what is this..???waiting for something..
While we are surprising people, can we add a feature? To enhance the experience of reading, can bloggers have option to play music while people read our blogs? As an option, you can play yours relevant to the category selected. Will be a great business generator too for you. Try out !!!
I know what happened… 🙂 When I post, it pops up a cute video.
Done! hope it’s worth the excitement 🙂
i’m curious because you didn’t explain it, ok let’s try then. Thank you
OK, I did it. But I’m worried.
WOAH! I activated ‘Fun Mode’ and the Power Rangers came out and did the Funky Chicken with me!
Just kidding. Seriously though…BELIEVE me, you WILL be surprised! I got my first surprise early this morning when my speakers suddenly sounded off. However, the surprise is different each time so someone here telling you what they got doesn’t really help you out at all. 😉
Maybe this has something to do with the new WP3.0 that’s just round the corner?
Matt, I had posted a suggestion yesterday. Cant see it.
To enhance the reader experience, can we have an option of music, selected by the blogger/reader, played when we are reading? Will be a great business opportunity for you in terms of music promotion. Surprise me.
Super excited to see, I guess I missed the post until today!
Let’s try it!
It’s super cool, but it’s a surprise. 😀
I checked it the other day and still nothing…..feeling a bit left out…. =( Maybe part of the surprise is not knowing when it will come?
Didn’t like it.
Just 4 fun? 😉
Ah, what’s the surprise!!!!! I’d rather get “spoiled” on this one. 😉
Checked the option, waiting to see what’s stored in it for me 😀
looking forward for surprising surprise. Hahaha…
Can’t see any fun or surprising differences.
Well, where’s the update?
Hmm. Aside from the “this post is super awesome” box, are there other surprises?
I think I got my surprise…but I don’t know whether it is or not…xxx
Once upon a time there was a kingdom called Serendip and it transmogrified on WordPress as Surprise me….
So I just hit the surpise button. I’m waiting to get the surprise. I wonder What do i get? It better be surprising.
This post itself is surprising.
I activated the surprise button right after it was announced and I haven’t been surprised yet!
I’m surprised it never worked! LOL!
I agree with Nadia, just checked my blog stats and found a new “humanize” tab… fun stuff indeed.