Jaleho
Today's Iron Chef Challenge: Deoxyribonucleic Acid
I have an idea, and I'm looking for someone to team up with.
What I want to do might be in the form of a podcast, a vlog, a blog, or something else.
There are two basic possibilities I have in my head, but anyone is free to come up with another or a variation of them.
1. Once a week / every other week / once a month, we pick a Random Wikipedia Article. Then, both parties try to "top" one another with their discoveries.
For instance, let's say the article was... (clicking) ..."Persldorf", a city in Austria. There's almost NOTHING in Wikipedia about this town.
Perhaps one person finds a page filled with info about the town. The other manages to find video footage of a festival in the town. The first person then strikes up a conversation with someone who LIVES in the town. The second manages to find a descendant of the town's founders who have personal info regarding the town's origins. They also record a short intro to the challenge in (Austrian "Guten Tag! You're watching The Info Junkie Challenge" or whatever).
The first person scores two all-expense paid trips to the town where the next episode of the show is filmed/recorded/blogged from. Both agree this tops the challenge, and a new random topic is selected.
In a way, this is like the "one red paperclip" blog, only instead of trading things, it becomes a battle of "who is the better info junkie - who finds more data, who makes better connections, etc"
And people might actually tune in to see how far we're willing to go.
2. In this version, TWO random articles are selected. Let's say... (clicking) ..."Candesartan", a pharmaceutical chemical, and... (clicking) ..."HD 149143", a star in the Ophiuchus constellation.
What do these two things have in common? I have no idea -- yet. That is the challenge. Both parties go off and research, and then return next episode to present their claims. Whichever connection is decided to be more "valid" (or entertaining) wins, and the next two articles are selected.
Now, regardless of which of these challenges we use, an important part of the game would be to document our process. I'm not talking step-by-step (unless you want to) but more along the lines of "here are some useful websites that helped me, and you might find them useful in YOUR searches, too" sort of way. Wikipedia and Google are obvious, but other sites we come across might be fun in a "how did I not know this tool existed" sort of way.
Anyone interested? Any thoughts?
What I want to do might be in the form of a podcast, a vlog, a blog, or something else.
There are two basic possibilities I have in my head, but anyone is free to come up with another or a variation of them.
1. Once a week / every other week / once a month, we pick a Random Wikipedia Article. Then, both parties try to "top" one another with their discoveries.
For instance, let's say the article was... (clicking) ..."Persldorf", a city in Austria. There's almost NOTHING in Wikipedia about this town.
Perhaps one person finds a page filled with info about the town. The other manages to find video footage of a festival in the town. The first person then strikes up a conversation with someone who LIVES in the town. The second manages to find a descendant of the town's founders who have personal info regarding the town's origins. They also record a short intro to the challenge in (Austrian "Guten Tag! You're watching The Info Junkie Challenge" or whatever).
The first person scores two all-expense paid trips to the town where the next episode of the show is filmed/recorded/blogged from. Both agree this tops the challenge, and a new random topic is selected.
In a way, this is like the "one red paperclip" blog, only instead of trading things, it becomes a battle of "who is the better info junkie - who finds more data, who makes better connections, etc"
And people might actually tune in to see how far we're willing to go.
2. In this version, TWO random articles are selected. Let's say... (clicking) ..."Candesartan", a pharmaceutical chemical, and... (clicking) ..."HD 149143", a star in the Ophiuchus constellation.
What do these two things have in common? I have no idea -- yet. That is the challenge. Both parties go off and research, and then return next episode to present their claims. Whichever connection is decided to be more "valid" (or entertaining) wins, and the next two articles are selected.
Now, regardless of which of these challenges we use, an important part of the game would be to document our process. I'm not talking step-by-step (unless you want to) but more along the lines of "here are some useful websites that helped me, and you might find them useful in YOUR searches, too" sort of way. Wikipedia and Google are obvious, but other sites we come across might be fun in a "how did I not know this tool existed" sort of way.
Anyone interested? Any thoughts?
