13 thoughts on “Crowd-sourcing: A Personal Experiment

  1. I realize this isn’t as interesting a partisan snipefest as discussing Hobbes as the anti-libertarian…

    I guess I do get a little…antsy without feedback. Even if it’s just a “fuck off and die”.Report

    1. I’ve applied to a fair number of Japanese programs. Most of them were telling me that I wasn’t eligible because I didn’t go through a Japanese university for a study abroad. (Why this is relevant, I’m not sure.)

      I’m waiting on a handful of scholarships, but I’m a bit on the short side at the moment.Report

        1. If I were an American citizen, I wouldn’t be running this interesting experiment.

          Being as it is, the big thing about not qualifying for student loans is one of the reasons crowd-sourcing is one of my final options.Report

          1. I’ll shoot the link out to some Panasonic and Matsushita people, see if they can spread the word around. Most of them hold a dim view of the Japanese university system, for what that’s worth.Report

      1. Dude, this is the biggest venue I’ve ever been involved with. I’d suggest making a front page post with a handful of goofy pictures (put yourself in a lab coat in one, holding a rescued kitten in another, shovelling snow (and say it’s your neighbor’s sidewalk) in another) and basically explaining how Frigging Awesome you are and sending emails to Sullivan, Balloon Juice, Alas A Blog, and most of the other sites who see us as “the good ones” and ask them to do nothing more than link to your post on their own front page.

        Open with comedy, close with a serious discussion of what you hope to accomplish and how you intend to change the world for the better and put a link right there at the end.Report

          1. If comedy doesn’t work for you, then go for making people smile. Pictures of you doing good deeds and smiling broadly at the camera will suffice. The important thing is to MAKE EYE CONTACT and smile (smile big!) and generate good will on the other side of the screen. If you make people laugh or smile, you’re halfway there… and the other half can be accomplished by your explanation of how you want to change the world.

            If people feel like they know you, they’ll do more to help you. A picture where you’re making eye contact and smiling is worth a dozen arguments of approximately 83 words each.Report

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