The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine
It's part of my real job to be reasonably on the ball about new
trends and developments in media and communications. Now and again
I find something that overlaps with my unreal job as a writer. So
here's a couple of things I found today that might be of interest
to all those who've been gobbling up Harry's blogs about ebooks and
the like.
But these make ebooks look like the Domesday Book.
First of all, there's something called The Institute for the Future of the Book.
Bob Stein of the institute is quoted as referring to "the future of the book as a meeting place, based around what it can offer to fans and people that want to participate."
Maybe he'll enter this month's Word Cloud Competition.
Participation, along with collaboration is a huge trend? thing? topic? - whatever, when it comes to talking about new media. So here's something new for writers: ThumbScribes - "a platform for collaboratively creating fiction." Here you can log on and "create content" with friends or complete strangers via the medium or channel of your choice.
Is this the shining new future? Or simply a sideshow of Digital Consequences?
But these make ebooks look like the Domesday Book.
First of all, there's something called The Institute for the Future of the Book.
Bob Stein of the institute is quoted as referring to "the future of the book as a meeting place, based around what it can offer to fans and people that want to participate."
Maybe he'll enter this month's Word Cloud Competition.
Participation, along with collaboration is a huge trend? thing? topic? - whatever, when it comes to talking about new media. So here's something new for writers: ThumbScribes - "a platform for collaboratively creating fiction." Here you can log on and "create content" with friends or complete strangers via the medium or channel of your choice.
Is this the shining new future? Or simply a sideshow of Digital Consequences?
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As a general remark both of these sites appear to be setting out tto collect masive amounts of input. I would contend that this will be very hard to manage as it will rapidly become much much more than one brain can assimilate. It's a bit like organising twitter. You need to pick one person as the fulcrum for any assimilation of the inputs. Individuals will see their contributions disappear in a whelter of other input - louder noises and become discouraged
My second remark ("twitch") is that "The Institute for the Future of the Book" has its origins in Southern California and finds it necessary to have a mission statement. Stripped of its preamble and postscript the actual mission is expressed in 21 words, which is right on the money. :-)
So, my vote. A sideshow. In any creative undertaking success comes from a single vision and purpose, from one mind.
Like Twitter?
I got the latin: "Exquisitus somes mos imbibo novus vinum."
When I pasted it back in for Latin to English, I got: "Sought after body will imbibe novel wine."
What happens if we get recursive with it?
English to Hungarian: "Keresett után test akarat felszív novella bor."
Back to English: "Searched utAn corpora will felszAv novel wine."
I could do this all day! (How sad am I!)
I think we may have tried something of this sort on the Cloud once, but I didn't get involved personally - can any of the other longer-standing members remember?
Mmmm...I'm also tending towards the inCONSEQUENCEial sideshow. But an amusing one.
Yes, we've done tandem stories before and they've been great fun. I just spent a sobering half-hour trawling back through the blogs - I think we've done two as blogs and a couple as forum topics - but I've given up for now - there are 1543 pages of blogs and you can't start at any particular date - it was a case of paging back and back and back ... until I realised that it'll be Christmas soon. i.e. I gave up. When the paint has dried, I might try again. Actually, it was quite fun, looking back at very old blogs.
But how many works of fiction have more than one author, though (apart from where there's a strong visual element)? Not many. Will that change?
Amazing, though, what a body of work we've already built up here. I have removed most of my work that was up for critiques and I'm sure other have too - but even what remains is quite substantial.
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