[arg_discuss] War of the Worlds 2 on Twitter
Bryan Alexander
Bryan.Alexander at nitle.org
Mon Nov 3 17:01:46 EST 2008
Fun project. Just signed up.
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On Behalf Of David Fono
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 10:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [arg_discuss] War of the Worlds 2 on Twitter
Very cool project.
We've recently been running a Twitter-based game with a lightweight
story distributed within direct messages shared by players and
characters: http://www.edgaroftheweb.com
Cheers,
David
On 3-Nov-08, at 12:00 AM, arg_discuss-request at igda.org wrote:
> 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
>
> ===========================
> The Loose-Fish Project: <www.loose-fish.com>
> The Spoon River Metroblog: <http://spoonriver.metblogs.com>
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