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By: admin

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:10:45 +0000

Y’think? I guess that’s why I call it Running With My Eyes Closed.
“Mining real people’s stories”: mostly cruising the web and seeing what people are talking about, reading tweets and blog posts. It’s the kind of research I normally do to build a story; listening to people.
“making it public”: I need to put what I find in one place to share it with the other writers anyway. Why not let the audience in?
“writers…arc”: no prob there, standard fare.
“create characters”: did I say Facebook, no I don’t think I did. Did I say “as though they are real people”? No, don’t think so. Done that. This time, we’ll make sure everything is really clearly tagged as fiction.
“know when performances are”: they figure out what time to get to the movie theatre don’t they? they can program their PVRs. I think people will be able to figure out how to “watch” a scene unfold at a specified time on Twitter. People managed to show up in droves to play Bingo with ze frank.
That’s not to say it isn’t a minefield, but I think what’s laid out is very do-able.

By: Laurel L. Russwurm

Laurel L. Russwurm — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:59:17 +0000

I’m not quite sure if I get this… are you are talking about:

1. mining real people’s personal relationship information from facebook, and then

2. making it all publicly available by rebroadcasting it through blogs and friendfeed,

3. writers will turn the information gathered into story arcs and

4. create fictional characters which will be put into facebook and twitter as though they are real people to act out a drama for a week?

5. somehow the people using facebook and twitter will know that “performances” are going.

Is that correct?

This sounds like a minefield.