did anyone [or everyone] else get one of these in the mail today?
Subject: MIT Weblog Survey
From: “Cameron Ma”
Date: Mon, June 13, 2005 2:05 pm
To: mike_proxientunit.comHi there,
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is conducting an important academic study
regarding weblogs. We are investigating the role of weblogs in the lives of their
authors. Does your weblog make you more connected to the rest of society? Does it
increase your chances of getting a job or finding information that you are looking
for? To answer these questions, which are very important to our research, we ask for
your help.Your weblog has been randomly selected as part of a small group among millions to
represent the entire community of weblog authors. We obtained this email address
from what we assume is your weblog:http://www.proxientunit.com
If this is NOT your weblog, we would appreciate it if you could tell us by clicking
on this link:http://blogsurvey.media.mit.edu/optout?
This is not a commercial marketing survey, but scholarly research to be used in
academic publications such as journals, conferences and books. By participating in
this study you will be assisting scientific research and contributing to a better
understanding of how weblogs are influencing people’s lives. We would like you to
please fill out our short survey (about 15 minutes or less, on average).To take the survey, either follow this link:
or use the following information to log in:
http://blogsurvey.media.mit.edu
Your help is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free
to contact me, or consult the link at the end of this email.Yours Sincerely,
Cameron Mar…
MIT Media Laboratoryhttp://blogsurvey.media.mit.edu/help
just wondering if im actually special or not?
June 13th, 2005 at 12•33
you are special. i am obviously not.
but i am on fire. right now.
June 15th, 2005 at 03•16
oh my… MIT… my little guy is moving up in the world [yea, I know we had the “please don’t call me that” conversation but I just can’t shake it].
speaking of shaking it.. you know, round these parts the Black Eyed Peas are all the rage… their newest video echoes the aesthetics of the Outkast video so much that I confuse the two now - I don’t know why that bothers me - neither are all that jazz. Maybe it’s the infection of mediocrity.
i cut my hair. um. woot. [am i still allowed to use that phrase? i’m still fucking l33t, you know.] ow. my pride.
i’ll have to get back to you soon about possible dates. keep me updated on the finances. I’m trying to get in touch with my Dziadek to see if this Finland hop works out.
And… you were in my dream last night… and in my dream, i was supposed to wake up and tell you something. Alas, I haven’t the vaguest recollection of what that something is… but it’s probably something about how you’re going to die.
oh yea: love, sam.