I am so dead
My mind's just blanking out. There's no way I'm going to finish a credible draft of this paper within the next 20 minutes. I've been thinking about it all day, but... this just isn't what I had done my initial reading for, and the lack of background is really biting me.
My technology diffusion visualizations were born out of an afternoon of play, a direction I took during a random walk. For some reason, Mark liked it. Now I find myself scrambling madly to learn about innovation diffusion theory. (Hooray, Everett Rogers!)
My reading notes are all about bookmarking and its personal and social benefits. Maybe I can still work that in somewhere, but bookmarking isn't the main focus of the paper, and I need to fill in a lot more back story.
Should I have skipped all the afterparties and focused on this? My sense is that in the long run, that networking will be of much use. (Although perhaps I could've skipped mush...) Now if only it didn't take me so long to get back on track.
If Mark was looking over my shoulder, he'd probably tell me to stop blogging and concentrate on writing my paper instead. Unless I manage to unblock my mind, though, it's going to be pretty hard for me to make sense of the papers and write a coherent submission.
My problem is that I've been giving him all of these half-papers: teams, personal benefits for social bookmarking, etc. - but we keep changing my topic after I pass them. I'm sure all of these paper fragments lying around the place will be useful someday, but it's incredibly frustrating having to keep branching out.
I feel like such a research failure...
Random Japanese sentence: ãÂÂÂÂã®猫ã¯好ã‹れã¦ã„る。 The cat is liked.
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