{"id":4247,"date":"2008-01-08T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T19:01:17","slug":"confusion-quandry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4247","title":{"rendered":"ConFusion Quandry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have so much to read.  I have so much to write.  I have so many people that mean so much to me.  I have so much to do.<\/p>\n<p>But I have -so much- time.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the cliche&#8230; <em>where does it all go?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The books for <a href=\"http:\/\/stilyagi.org\/cons\/2008\/\">ConFusion<\/a> might not arrive on time.  In the circumstance that they do not, I&#8217;m thinking of modifying an older idea.  I have a bunch of badge ribbons that ask, &#8220;WHO IS THE SQUIRREL KING?&#8221;  They&#8217;ve been the most popular ribbons of the three.  I could give those that have read the book a ribbon, and a couple of USB jump drives with a .pdf copy of the whole novel.  Then, I could print up twenty or so flyers that ask the same thing, and hang them in various locations around the con, with a picture of the Remembrance gem in the background (thanks again <lj user=\"thndrlion\">!).  Underneath the question could be smaller print with a line of text directing them to people who have the ribbon.  If they ask the question, they get a ribbon and a jump drive.  Now, in the case that these people get asked the question (since they now have a ribbon), they can find people who have jump drives.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an attempt at viral marketing that will rely upon sci-fi fantasy geeks to talk to a stranger.  Luckily, being a con atmosphere, I think that it&#8217;s far more likely to happen.  I think I&#8217;ve talked about this sort of thing before here.  What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have so much to read. I have so much to write. I have so many people that mean so much to me. I have so much to do. But I have -so much- time. Enter the cliche&#8230; where does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34,15],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal","tag-writery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-16v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7423,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/7423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}