Comments on: Twitter As a Conduit For Fiction?

By: Protagonize Is A Good Read, Help Write “FriendFeed Fan”

Protagonize Is A Good Read, Help Write “FriendFeed Fan” — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:34:08 +0000

[...] seen attempts a collaborative writing projects before, more recently with Cameron Reilly’s Twittories project. Protagonize takes the collaborative path more seriously by offering better accessibility that [...]

By: Twittories: el 'cadaver exquisito' hecho de microblogging

Twittories: el 'cadaver exquisito' hecho de microblogging — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:04:22 +0000

[...] | Techcrunch Sitio oficial | Twittories En Papel en blanco | Twitterlit: seduciendo a la lectura con 140 [...]

By: KillerStartups.com - Twittories.wikispaces.com - Twitter Short Stories

KillerStartups.com - Twittories.wikispaces.com - Twitter Short Stories — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:10:14 +0000

Twittories.wikispaces.com - Twitter Short Stories…

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog :)…

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:45:25 +0000

Why doesn’t he just say that he read the article on Mobile novels in Japan and had the idea for Twitter, instead of coming up with fake reasons that sound better, like ‘one day me and my wife were reading for ou kids in bed…’ Gees, everyone knows you read that article just like we all did, man!

By: links for 2007-12-14 « Zero influence

links for 2007-12-14 « Zero influence — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:31:27 +0000

[...] Twitter As a Conduit For Fiction? Cameron doesn’t think that this is an evolutionary step forward in the development of fiction, but an interesting experiment in mashing crowd based contributions via Twitter. (tags: ebooks fiction publishing twitter writing) Posted by zeroinfluencer Filed in del.icio.us links [...]

By: TPN :: GDay World » Blog Archive » Twittories - Day Three

TPN :: GDay World » Blog Archive » Twittories - Day Three — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:47:40 +0000

[...] Duncan wrote about Twittories on TechCrunch yesterday and it got the usual bullshit TechCrunch criticisms in the comments. It makes me laugh how many people are the living embodiment of Comic Book Guy. Anyway, it was hopefully great exposure for us. Most of the TC criticism tends to come from two angles: it isn’t original and it isn’t “literature”. [...]

By: El Blog del Brillante Despliegue de Sinónimos :: Twistoria :: December :: 2007

El Blog del Brillante Despliegue de Sinónimos :: Twistoria :: December :: 2007 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:08:14 +0000

[...] en TechCrunch que cinco de los diez libros con más éxito de ventas están escritos para ser leídos vía [...]

By: Twittories and the art of writing « Always New Mistakes

Twittories and the art of writing « Always New Mistakes — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:04:01 +0000

[...] style, twitter, twittories, writing — alexbarrera @ 3:03 pm Some days ago, our good friend Duncan Riley wrote about Twittories. It’s a website where many people collaborate to write a short story. [...]

By: Mark Smithivas

Mark Smithivas — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:24:12 +0000

I’m attempting something similar, except that you simply call in your addition as a voicemail fragment. http://pageoftext.com/voicemail_how_does_it_end

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:31:11 +0000

Hope for them that the writers strike goes on for a while!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Made in DNA

Made in DNA — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:52:40 +0000

This is very cool, but it only takes one jerk (probably one of the guys above who rant throwing about words like “web 2.0″ as if they invented it) to flub it for the entire group. I’m interested in seeing how this works out, and how they keep the Victorian Era Web 2.0ers at bay.

Made in DNA (aka JunkDNA Fiction @ Twitter), Twitter author of BUKKAKE BRAWL and MEDIA WHORES

By: Twittories, o Twitter Contador de Histórias! — Getting Better

Twittories, o Twitter Contador de Histórias! — Getting Better — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:08:47 +0000

[...] Via TechCrunch. [...]

By: To boldly go...into publishing and beyond.

To boldly go...into publishing and beyond. — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:37:07 +0000

Mobile books, collaborative fiction, and Twittories…

I’d previously posted elsewhere about what I consider to be the next wave–mobile publishing. More people have cell phones than have laptops, and content generation–videos, photos, messaging, blogging–is becoming the primary reas…

By: thomas

thomas — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:53:54 +0000

This idea is great, I’m loving it and eagerly anticipating each new twittory. It is so amazing where people are taking the story.

By: Boris

Boris — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:52:16 +0000

For people who think this isn’t new, or news, or fitting for Techcrunch because it is ‘just’ a funny little bit of information I have a quote for you from Isaac Asimov:

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny …’”

After reading this I thought ‘That’s funny…’. It might NOT herald a new discovery but it is a mashup of old and new and maybe, in a weird way, it will inspire the next little funny thing and they might lead to… well, you get the point.

By: Mark Zawacki

Mark Zawacki — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:01:21 +0000

Ah, someone FINALLY discovers a use for Twitter! The Twitter Digerati, I can hardly wait. What’s that kids game where you pass a secret around the room and the last person says it out loud?

By: Aidan Henry

Aidan Henry — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:00:21 +0000

Interesting idea, although I think I can find better things to do with my time. Besides, I’d probably just add stupid, random, off topic pieces that would have me exiled from the group :s

Cheers,
Aidan
http://www.MappingTheWeb.com

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:27:50 +0000

As has been pointed out, this is old. Pre-Web 2.0 old, surprising as it may be to most people here that anything existed before Facebook. It was popular as a parlor game in the Victorian era, or at least a variant where you write your part of the story on a piece of paper but fold it so only the last line or two can be seen. It’s far from new to the Internet either - virtually every Internet forum, large or small, will have at least one thread playing this game.

I won’t do the obvious thing and stick my nose in the air asking ‘why is this news’ because this is TechCrunch. You don’t buy the Daily Mail and write to the editor saying ‘Excuse me sir, but I couldn’t help noticing an undercurrent of racism in your reporting’ or ask the Financial Times to give more of a voice to the trade unions.

I do find it rather disturbing that the connection it can trigger in a blogger’s mind is “gee, this is like a Twitter conversation”. Does everything have to be framed in the context of something Web 2.0 related? We’re turning into a Star Trek episode. Any minute now an alien Captain Kirk will land on our planet and try to teach us the meaning of love, to which we will reply “Oh… so it’s like having a really good Facebook friend?”

By: hombrelobo

hombrelobo — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:33:36 +0000

We tried something similar. We created a twitter user at http://twitter.com/minilibro Everytime anyone sends an email to safpk967k4@twittermail.com (using the twittermail service), the text gets automatically published. The idea was to create a live book made of SMSs from the crowd ….

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:31:45 +0000

Besides the fact that this was invented years ago by the surrealist group in Paris under the nice knickname of “cadavres exquis”, it also is a very nice way to ban litterature from the end result. Just figure out that with Proust for example, you wouldn’t even have reach the main verb with 140 digits.

It is SMS style logorrhea, and definitively not writing. Sorry.

By: PCCOMIC » Blog Archive » Mashable and Techcrunch

PCCOMIC » Blog Archive » Mashable and Techcrunch — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:18:58 +0000

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By: Future Technologies Converged

Future Technologies Converged — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:30:25 +0000

This was used to be done in school and its great fun. In addition you also had to remember the story and that add sentences based on your memory.

This is certainly an interesting tool to put it all together and play it like a game any chance you get. The only thing is that the quality of the text and the game usually goes down when the number of participants becomes too high. Since your input becomes negligible, it’s impact on story is reduced. So the moderators should try to limit the number of people submitting for each story. Of course there is no limit on the number of stories that may run in parallel.

Cool anyway.

By: :: r y a n ::

:: r y a n :: — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:24:27 +0000

I hear if you rub your Twitteris enough you can totally rub out some fictional pleasure.

By: Micah Baldwin

Micah Baldwin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:10:21 +0000

The comma killed the link above - it should be http://www.tweetbook.com and twitter.com/tbook . We even have a facebook group!

By: Micah Baldwin

Micah Baldwin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:09:15 +0000

I tried this a couple of months back at http://www.tweetbook.com, but I guess I didnt have the juice to get it on TC! I am excited to see the idea move forward, and in a new interesting way.

Good luck Cameron!