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Make my project happen!
Submitted by crashingintowalls on 29 November 2006 - 1:58pm.
So, my final project depends entirely on a community that will participate in it. As a member of the Writing Machines community, I want to ask you to help me. Rather than telling you a lot about my concept, I'd prefer to let you try it for yourself and talk to me about it later. Seriously, it will take 10 minutes of your time, and it just might be fun. Check it out here. Many thanks!
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final form
Are you going to post all changes daily to the visual/linguistic sites in photograph form on your synthetic site, or are you archiving and then compiling the results in some other form? I ask because of the long time delay between when the instructions were written/project started and the crossed out date in the notebook noting the shift from October to November. It made me feel like perhaps I was missing something and many days had gone before this ostensible DAY 1.
just me being lame
Actually, the inconsistency with dates was an honest typo that I didn't see until my first check-in with the notebook. I wanted to just take out the page, but I felt that this violated my role as recorder. Instead I made a correction to limit the confusion (guess that failed) and decided to stop dating future pages. Thanks for the thoughts!
slambook
This reminds me of a slambook. Do you remember using them in middle school? They were always a bit silly, but the content was always very...interesting, to say the least. I'm trying to think of a way for you to get more participation in your notebook. Perhaps put it in a more high traffic area, like the Motley? Last year (or perhaps the year before), there was a slambook-ish notebook in the Motley, and there were all sorts of cool poems and drawings and etchings and sketches and stories in it, and because it was all anonymous, people felt safe writing in it. It was truly a public, collaborative project.
Final Project
Probably you're using places that most of your colleagues will immediately recognize, but a map for the more clueless among us might help.
"Alms for the clueless. . . . Alms for the clueless . . . ."