So what’s the vote on Jeremy’s suggestion of getting ribbons for ASA? Yeah or Nay? I don’t want to be the only dork wearing one (although I certainly won’t be the only dork). And more importantly, if yeah (YEAH!) what about the design? Our banner. Someone had suggested a multiple-choice question. But I suspect we may not be able to fit it.
As co-chair of the newly elected scatterplot ASA party committee (winning by one vote, shout out to my co-chair, Tina), I am happy to do the planning. If you’re thinking, “Shamus, it’s May. Get a life. ASA is in August,” I say to you: This is the kind of responsible leadership you can come to expect from me. And as you are reading my blog, I would ask, “Who, really, doesn’t have a life??
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Shamus, don’t let teh haterz vote this down. What makes it great is its high dorkness factor–a trait that will not appeal to the masses.
Although I’m somewhat too old and clueless to be sure I understand the full nuance of the word, I think I qualify as an ultimate dork. I like the ribbon idea, and this is my first chance ever to be involved with anything remotely cool. There are two possibilities that seem right to me. One is nothing but dots — you have to be an insider to know what it means. The other is about the same idea: a representation of the blog banner that includes along with the dots the name scatterplot and/or the blog url: this version presumes that part of the point is to increase readership, and not just signify insiderness.
Oh, I like the “insider” dot idea. I mean anyone could have one, but the conference would be abuzz with wonder about what those dot ribbons are about.
Yay! Can I have one? And where will we get them? surely ASA will not let us put them int hebadge envelope thingee.
I would definitely wear one, assuming they are not just for actual bloggers, but blog readers as well.
Me too!
I want one! And I think the dots would be just as useful as a promotional tool: they would be memorable and require people to actually interact with the wearers of the ribbons. This interaction should solidify the information more so than merely reading it.
Or maybe I’m just trying to justify the dots cuz I want to be in on some method for signifying insiderness….
I think we should give them out snowball style. Or, maybe if the party is early on, we can give them out there.
Also, to be 100% clear: Readers count as part of this blog and will be beribboned accordingly.
yeah! (i want a ribbon.) i vote for just the dots, per anomie, and i also like the snowball style to catch folks who can’t make the party, or just to allow each of us our own insider-invite, like gmail in the early days. speaking of which - does anyone who wants a ribbon get one? we should, after all, think clearly about this important rite of passage and who qualifies. does one have to demonstrate in some empirical way that one has read a certain minimum number of posts? does one merely have to be friends with (but not a reader of) a scatterbrain/reader? or would these people have to wait an agonizing but growth-filled year to wear the ribbon themselves, acolyting to our superior knowledge and insideryness?
my housemate (a poli sci student starting TT in the fall) just says to me:
our ribbon should be a moebius strip, in light of the self-reflexive nature of both shamus’s post (overlapping layers of self-reflexivity) and the self-indulgent nature of the entire project.
so - moebius strips made out of header dots? these might, however, be too labor-intensive.
I strongly believe what others have said: tags for all who want them! We make no requirements. And graduate students out there can do a masters paper on the social movement of scatterplot or network dispersion (ASA being your data). How unbelievably awesome would that be? If I got that paper to review I’d demand that it be published.
Yes, ribbons for all.
I love Mobius strips, so much so that a good friend knit me one awhile ago.
Aw, this makes me wish that ASA in Boston weren’t prohibitively expensive with the flight + registration (seriously, can’t I just crash the confernece with a ribbon and no one would notice?)
Save me a ribbon when y’all come to SF! I will throw a Scatterparty in Oakland!
PS: I live in the bourgie part of Oakland, so no one need worry about getting shot.
Well, Belle, one of us could get you a visitor’s registration of 10 bucks. Then it’s just flight and finding a corner in someone’s room.
I totally want one.
I want my first ribbon to be a scatterplot ribbon! How COOL!!!!!