Much to my dismay, I once again showed up late, but not out of my own volition. I had an unfortunate event on my way to work: as I was about half-way there a truck drove by and sprayed a puddle all over me. I was drenched from the chest down and had to go home to change. I’ve secretly always wanted some sort of movie cliche to happen to me, and I finally got my wish. Unfortunately, it was at the most inopportune time.
My second day was business as usual (BAU), as there were no team meetings. I spent most of the day doing back-end research that would eventually be used to organize a programming campaign. After I completed this list I was given the task of annotating youtube videos on the BBC Global iPlayer Channel so that they would link to other playlists. I had a long discussion with my boss about the best way to go about accomplishing this. I recalled my readings on networks and quickly sketched out a way to link every video to a different playlist, thus creating plenty of “bridges” or “weak ties” between content.* Unfortunately, such a playlist would have involved over 700 annotations, which would take me more than the time I would be working at the BBC.
*The theory of "weak ties" was proposed by Mark Granovetter in his paper The Strength of Weak Ties.
My second day was business as usual (BAU), as there were no team meetings. I spent most of the day doing back-end research that would eventually be used to organize a programming campaign. After I completed this list I was given the task of annotating youtube videos on the BBC Global iPlayer Channel so that they would link to other playlists. I had a long discussion with my boss about the best way to go about accomplishing this. I recalled my readings on networks and quickly sketched out a way to link every video to a different playlist, thus creating plenty of “bridges” or “weak ties” between content.* Unfortunately, such a playlist would have involved over 700 annotations, which would take me more than the time I would be working at the BBC.
*The theory of "weak ties" was proposed by Mark Granovetter in his paper The Strength of Weak Ties.
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