Today, I thought I was going to blog about the dog I am getting today, all the movies I've seen backlogged in my head, or the beach in the middle of downtown on my secretsinsandiego blog. But instead, I came across a few articles written on the Fast Company experiment called "The Influence Project." The initial idea came from the aforementioned article and the brainchild (?) proposals (First one in the second proposal to be specific. First Proposal and second part of second proposal is just humor). The funny company Mekanism wanted to do something viral (their website is silly). Yes, indeed this project has received some viral attention both good and bad. The concept is great, but execution really poor. In reality, who influences me may not influence you. I can submit myself but I choose not to. First of all, I become a lost portrait. Second of all, someone can be influenced by me and then we can play the Kevin Bacon game (The degrees of influence). Am I seriously supposed to spam all my friends for support to become a portrait on the cover of Fast Company? I peruse the participants in wall mode and get bombarded by all the pics submitted, over 6,000 so far. I maybe know three or four people, and am easily amused with all the bad photographs and odd submissions (some are avatars, clip art and baseball cards). Seriously, Fast Company what are you thinking? Like a bunch of posts I have read, this is not a popularity contest. I know Fast Company means well but continue to write these articles like the one about Gary Vaynerchuk, It takes more that a four line bio to get to someone to say you influence them. PS. I did recognize my friend @jennyjenjen in this article so at least some good came out of the project (San Diego represent!). And yes, I am adopting a poodle today (That will make 3 furkids for me). Her name is Lexi.
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