[arg_discuss] Fwd: War of the Worlds 2 on Twitter
Jay Bushman
jaybushman at gmail.com
Sat Nov 1 13:05:52 EDT 2008
Duh, forgot the last link: <http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/10/30/the-novel-by-tweet/
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From: Jay Bushman <jaybushman at gmail.com>
Date: November 1, 2008 10:04:40 AM PDT
To: Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG <arg_discuss at igda.org>
Subject: War of the Worlds 2 on Twitter
Some of you may have seen a twitter-storm over the past two days about
a Martian invasion. It was part a distributed real-time re-telling of
War of the Worlds, which took place mostly on Twitter but also
incorporated blogs, photos and video. You can find the main stream of
events here:
<http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wotw2>
In finished up last night at midnight, Los Angeles time. I'm still
gathering my thoughts about it, but I have to say it was the most fun
I've had as part of an online media experience since The Beast.
It was organized by a fellow named Kris Kowal: <http://askawizard.blogspot.com/2008/10/war-of-worlds-20.html
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And here's a nice overview written just after it ended, by a friend of
mine: <http://heavylittleobjects.com/?p=991>
And (if I may plug myself), this week's Christian Science Monitor
quotes me in a piece about using Twitter as a storytelling engine --
on the same week they announce that they will no longer be publishing
the print edition.
-Jay
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