This is disturbing. Not only did some desperate collegiate hack, undoubtedly on Double Secret Probation and hepped up on Mountain Dew, write a term paper on an article I wrote what seems like a zillion years ago, that term paper is now for sale (scroll down).
Called Online Classifieds: A Descriptive & Integrative Analysis, the term paper offers -- what else? -- "a descriptive and integrative analysis of Mark Toner's 'Online Classifieds'. Included are: author background & purpose, methodology, results & conclusions, significance and 'real-world' application." It even has nine -- count 'em, nine! -- footnotes, so you know it's well researched.
With all that, the term paper is a steal at $44.75, which is about $44.75 more than I've seen from the original article.
In the interest of helping the scores upon scores of academics busy analyzing my vast body of professional work, here are equally helpful summaries of some of my other groundbreaking reportage. (It's all free, though if you want footnotes, that'll cost you...)
- Blogs are kind of like memoirs, except when they aren't. But they're online. Which memoirs aren't.
- The great thing about comics is that if they're drawn well enough, they don't have to be funny.
- Trucks move stuff.
- If someone comes to you and asks you to fork over $20 million to mail free computer scanners to people who might not have computers, it's probably not a good idea.
- Small newspapers make their reporters write about some really strange things.
- People who don't like Microsoft often do like penguins. Also, Paul Revere's heroic ride for freedom and an online grocery delivery van dropping off a carton of Ramen noodles may be compared unironically if it serves a facile metaphor.
- Nekkid people are funny.