Marketing plan for Google Knols due in two days; terror sets in, Bill Gibson invoked

[petronia]

Latter-day British indie is screwing me upside the head; I need to get back to the endless accelerating future / dilated present of techno where I can exist in comfort without having to think about Baudrillard all the time. Somewhere along the line I developed an over-sensitivity to this crap, like when YTubers upload concert vids in black and white to be artsy I start scanning the scene for signs it wasn't filmed in the 1960s and when I CANNOT FIND THEM, AT ALL I get twitchy. And then the view pulls back and there's this sea of CAMERAPHONES and my brain goes DINGDINGDING YOU HAVE ENTERED THE REALM OF THIRD-ORDER SIMULACRA. Hyperreality headache. You'd think anime fandom would provide some form of immunity.

At some point I have got to write up my fandom adventures of the past three weeks. Right now it's sororial unit taking the brunt of my flailing eloquence for the first time in years. XD; It's more like going down the rabbit hole than ever, if only because I normally ignore stuff like vids or fileshares or macros and stick to the fic (and some meta). But... actually WTF, all you peeps have either just come off JE or gone into bandslash anyway, you know what I mean. XD; Fantasy of information exclusivity etc. Plus WE CAN ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THE MUSIC, how awesome is that. I actually can't be bothered with anything other than YTube and the Hype Machine but my sister's blagged her way into download forums and closed fic comms and is (she says) currently torrenting Pete Doherty's harddrive off Mininova (just think; this dude is doing well with maintaining a semblance of rock star mystique in the 21st century). P.S. that buy-your-favorite-artist-a-pint remuneration model we were talking about earlier? That sort of falls down if your favorite artist is an alcoholic/cokehead/whatever. But probably Britney fans are taking a break from Britney at the mome being as it's the best one can do for her.

School-wise I keep getting B-pluses, which pisses me off despite the fact that I'm probably putting in B-plus efforts on a lot of my individual work. I guess I'll never fully lose the expectation that B-plus efforts ought to garner me As (a good argument for aca-streaming yr high-achiever kids early and hard).

P.S. Nana II mix!

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[subterrain.livejournal.com]

Fucking B-pluses, man, what the hell? The most frustrating grade on the planet. It's like a pity grade. "Oh well," says the prof, "Maybe next time you'll be worth an A." It's all such ass. They keep promising this pass/fail system of the future and yet it never manifests.

PS. your post's title? totally mystifies me.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Google Knols (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html)
Wired commentary (http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/12/googles-knols-i.html)

Marketing prof basically handed out printouts of above plus several other articles and went, "You have three weeks to write a 7-page double-spaced marketing plan for this. Pretend you're trying to get hired by Google on the basis of your genius. It's worth 45% of your grade! :D :D :D"

Finance is one thing but you'd think Org Behaviour would be a "soft" course. Ohhhhh no. Dem Hufflepuffs are harsh graders.

[arboretum]

I feel you on the effort -> payoff thing re: B+s and As. I MISS HIGH SCHOOL. :(

[bladderwrack.livejournal.com]

(a good argument for aca-streaming yr high-achiever kids early and hard)

ahaha YY. orz

[analyse.livejournal.com]

School-wise I keep getting B-pluses, which pisses me off despite the fact that I'm probably putting in B-plus efforts on a lot of my individual work.

b-school is just like that! i dunno, i find that effort does not necessarily guarantee results about half the time, being able to think on feet and smoke creatively does. even with finance, confidence counts a lot although it is pretty hard work all the time OTL

also b-school is the school with the most distractions IMO. liberal arts people can't top our networking sessions lol. XD;;;

[serendip.livejournal.com]

Whoa, wait, I just saw your last.fm top 10 this week and WHEN did Dot Allison and Pete Doherty do a collab? Not that he does much for me, but I am a fan of her ^_^

[(Anonymous)]

In late 2004, I think - you should've seen the email I sent to my sister (who has no idea who Dot Allison is, so it was lost on her). XD; I'll up it.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Uh, that was me obv, forgot I wasn't logged in here. XD;

[kit-sin.livejournal.com]

Yo, Are you alive? :P