The “Blogging Best Practices” document from work tells me I’m not supposed to hide the fact that I work there, so I shall announce today that I work at Microsoft. So there.
Now that the unimportant announcement is out of the way, I want to share with you an article from the site I work on, MSN Tech & Gadgets.
We commissioned this super-fun story about throwing the ultimate party in your dorm, for our “Back to College” special. The guy who triggered the idea was a Microsoft intern, Mark, who will graduate from Carnegie Mellon this coming semester. Apparently the geeky schools, they really know how to party.
So, at first I wanted Mark to actually write the story. Loved the idea of having someone in college write about the parties in college, but he couldn’t manage it due to his workload of ‘real work’. Bummer.
I then turned to a great writer I use, especially on stuff related to audio/visual. Doug found another college kid, Zack, from MIT, who turned out to be the hook for the story. Watch the video he provided for us:
Funny thing is, we later found out that Zack is an intern at Google. Who’d a thunk it. It’s the interns at the geeky schools who know how to party.
So there it is for you, a little behind-the-scenes note from work. If this were a DVD I’d include this in the feature commentary (I wonder if movie directors these days think to themselves, “Oh, I have to remember this for the DVD commentary” or “This is sooo going into the bonus features”. Weirdos).