Guess what I won?
Last month, Dandelife—a great young community about personal narrative ()—had a contest to produce a testimonial about the site. The hard drive crash I had in February delayed my participation until the 11th hour, but I posted one in time. I’ve never won a Web 2.0 kind of content contest before (although I did get a t-shirt for this), and I’ve never had an iPod before. It was also a heartfelt journal entry, so winning all around.
The irony, as I listen to “Jesus’ Brother Bob” by the Arrogant Worms, is that I just finished a paper with Eli Blevis and some grad students on sustainable design … in part condemning Apple’s business model of disposable fashion. My new gadget (a) is red and (b) has a little engraving: “Thrive. Dandelife.com,” which will make me extra sad when this little thing eventually wears down and has to be replaced. I say replaced, because I have missed having pervasive music around and can’t imaging doing without again.
Best perk about the iPod today: I like hearing Eric Clapton and Rachel Ferrell doing a musical play-by-play than all those inane basketball announcers.
Thriving.