I'm a lab rat!

[pixiecrinkle]

I just started to google to see if I could find references to my knitting blog, to see if anyone was reading it. I found a couple of cool things.

There's my blog's "value" as if it were traded on a stock market. I found this site a while back, but just now noticed that I'm indexed on it. It's kind of a fun concept.

And then I found this. I can't decide if it's weird or cool, but my blog is being used as an example in some sort of web writing class at a university in Minnesota. I'm flattered I think?

Is it wrong that this has now made me feel as if I must produce (more knitting, more writing) because I'm being studied?

Comments

[xaviermusketeer.livejournal.com]

That's kind of cool. I'd probably email the professor and ask to see what the students have to say about me if it was my blog they were studying!

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

I thought about writing them their own entry too, or somehow generically writing an entry with the same questions that are in their assignment, just to see if the prof is really keeping up with it. :-)

[xaviermusketeer.livejournal.com]

You should! That would be funny.

I'm kind of surprised the professor didn't email you about it. I mean, it's a public blog, so it's not like they really need permission, but if it were me, I would feel like I needed to email the bloggers just to say "Hey! Thought you might like to know I'm featuring you in my class."

[feylin17.livejournal.com]

er...shouldnt the prof ASK you first??

I think it would be funny to write an entry to the students...without emailing the prof first and see if you get any comments from them!

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

er...shouldnt the prof ASK you first??

I think s/he probably didn't want to taint the results by letting me know. Plus, it is publicly available on the web.

I did think of doing a little shoutout to Bemidji State U. though. That would be way funny. Maybe I'll say hi before I go on vacation next weekend. :-)

[octobrianaoz.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can twist this around, like on the "Truman Show" when Truman finally realises that he's being watched.

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

ha!