[arg_discuss] War of the Worlds 2 on Twitter

[Bryan Alexander]

Very cool.  

Nice fodder for my web 2.0 storytelling project.  Just co-authored a
paper on it:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/Web20StorytellingEme
rgenc/47444
http://web2storytelling.wikispaces.com/ 

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Subject: [arg_discuss] 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 
 >
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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