Most Decidedly Harmed in the Making of this Site

The vast potential of the human intellect is invested in digital media technology. And what do we do with said power? We create a website where you tell a guy in a chicken suit what to do. And he does it.

So what does this surreal marketing tool have to do with class? It's all about the Meta Data.

In order to give the appearance that you are in fact instructing a subservient chicken to do your bidding, the ever so clever marketing wizards created roughly 400 animations for this guy, so the odds of you repeating one are very slim. And each animation is played based on certain key words that you type into the command bar. Meta Data.

On top of being odd, its pretty impressive, and surprisingly hard to trip up. I told him to "hop." And he hopped on one foot. I told him to "hop on the other foot," expecting that they wouldn't have foreseen that specific instruction intended to trip him up. But lo and behold, he had another animation for hopping on the other foot.

So, today's lesson: meta data as we have learned in class has many practical applications in sorting information and making knowledge more easily accessible by humans and We Are A World Community Bound By Internet. But, more importantly, it can make a guy in a chicken suit bow down before you.

posted by Baylor at 1:07 PM