Grading Students on Internet Fame
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Story Links: Interview with Jamie Wilkinson a professor at Internet Famous, a graduate class at the Parsons New School for Design in New York City where algorithmic software determines each student’s grade based on a quantitative measurement of their web fame.
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Ah, getting grades for getting famous… brilliant. I think I’m at about a D+ right about now…. Also, cool effects for zooming in and out graphics!
Hi Jeffrey D! Thanks so much! The editing and special effects are awesome! Love it!
I asked Jamie what grade he would give me. I think I would get a C- in the class if they were to grade me so far. Jamie says he can go ahead and grade me now so let’s wait and find out!
A C-?? come on, give yourself some credit. Anyway, to get some hard evidence here… any chance Jamie would actually give us a run through his software?
Speaking of which.. one nifty site I’ve been checking out is Tubemogul…. nice for tracking many video sites at once. Brickfish is another nifty take on tracking social hype, outreach etc.
(ps.. not including links to these sites, you can find them…)
I love how Jamie always smiles. I find this humorous. Also I blogged about your Pop17 launch so that’s one more point to your internet famo score.
C-!? You’ve been written up on TechCrunch for crying out loud! Thats the equivalent of being on Oprah!
Sarah, I think your at least a B+. You have TechCrunch as a sponsor, which automatically makes you open to some of their traffic. You have your own following also and you were on TV with Scoble. You’re famous.
AHAHAHA! Your funny. Well if I am famous then you are too. Ok ok, I’ll give myself a B. :)
Awesome.
Brilliant concept - I’m totally jacked to see what you up come up with as this show progresses.
Sarah great work and awesome hair. I like the idea for the show, keep up the good work!
[...] • Had you forgotten that jerks everywhere are making sure “art” looks stupid? Check out this video for a reminder. We just got that professor an A in his own stupid stupidy stupid class for stupids. [Pop17] [...]
You would be a star in his class.
@Dani Bicknell, thanks on the hair comment. It’s been ages since I have been blonde and I have to admit I missed it.
Please do come and join the community here at Pop17. I know you will fit in well. So join me for my live segments and join me here in the comments! xo Sarah
Awesome way to start Pop 17! I love it. I’m checking out the site! Great interview.
Sarah,
Great first two shows–found you via TechCrunch.
Any chance you’ll be providing Pop17 via a podcast, so I can download automatically and watch episodes on my iPod/iPhone?
Great work so far, keep it up!
@AlexC I’ll have it available in 2 days! I’m looking forward to your subscribe!!! Thanks for watching :)
This is my kind of school. What a great concept!
Sign me up! I wanna be internet famous!!
great interview — that class sounds like the pits. ugh.
everyone wants to be a star.