Collaborative Book Project
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What started as a random message on twitter, has now spiraled into something larger.
I sent this message on Twitter asking if anyone would like to co-author a book with me using Twitter and Web as medium. Idea was to use Twitter as a communication medium to write a book. I did not have a clue what the book would be on. What the title would be. What the storyline would be. How would we collaborate. I just wanted to see if people would want to participate in this experiment. And yes, in less than an hour, 5 people had replied.
Siyab, SimplyArun, kv, Asfaq and gsik agreed to be a part of the experiment. We soon exchanged emails and figured how would be go about it. I shall keep updating this once we flesh out the details.
Keep tuned.
UPDATE ON 13 Jul 2008: Setup a wiki to help Collaboration. PBWiki Link
UPDATE ON 13 Jul 2008: Setup a blog. Twitter Book Blog
Image Credits: Flickr
@chetthaker:
An interesting typo there “Idea was to sue Twitter as a communication medium to write a book.” :-)
Seriously though this sounds like an interesting project and I look forward to seeing how this works out as you USE Twitter to get this done. Sounds like it will be fun.
July 12, 2008, 6:09 pmArun:
Feels great to be a part of this!
Great photograph btw :)
July 14, 2008, 4:50 ams4ur4bh:
@chet .. lol Thanks for pointing out the bug. It actually gives me an awesome idea. What if the book had tons of easter eggs and people can find those out if they wanted to ?
@arun … thanks for accepting. Looking forward to working with you.
Regards,
July 14, 2008, 5:47 amSG
sonaljhuj:
i have to know how this turns out!
do keep posting.
July 16, 2008, 6:38 amMuhammad Siyab:
A lil late to comment perhaps, but I’m absolutely happy to write a collaborative book!
July 17, 2008, 8:28 amBrijesh Tripathi:
despite “chet’s” pointing out, i see that the typo has not been untypoed, anyhow i take the typo as an interesting one(i actually was wondering for quite sometime as to what it could mean b4 getting down to comments!).
yeah, me too; even i’d like the privilege of being included in this exciting project!
July 22, 2008, 8:21 ams4ur4bh:
Hi Brijesh, corrected it :)
And all the slots are full right now. In case someone drops out or we make it larger, will let you know.
Thanks,
July 22, 2008, 8:27 amSG