A new genre of fiction is in the offing – the Twitter novel.
Reactionaries might scoff at the idea of character development, plot structure and stylistic nuances being developed via Twitter’s 140-character service, but then again they’d probabaly scoff at Twitter, per se. However, thanks to the Guardian we now know of Nick Belardes, “whose witty workplace novel Small Places has attracted a growing following on the site.”
Belardes has had “a coffee bet over who can get a twit book published first” with literary twitterer @arjunbasu. Leaving aside the question of what a coffee bet is (is it a bet over coffee, or one for a cup of coffee?), Blade is intrigued by the spectre of Twit Lit. Not least given its inherent mutability, for he learns of a new acronym, the JASON (Just Another Social Network). Could it be that Twit Lit, if it blossoms at all, will be replaced by something else within a year or so?
Image courtesy of Social Media World.
Good point about what Twit Lit could be replaced by. I agree, social networking changes faster than we can keep up. Either way, people want to be entertained on their cell phones not just by videos and music, but via short bursts of texts. I don’t think texts are going away anytime soon and that’s the key… Thanks for the mention!
So Farewell, then, Sir Fred Goodwin.
Now you are just Fred.
Not Right Said Fred, but plain Fred.
The Forfeiture Committee did for you.
No one had heard of it before,
But Dave said it had to act, and it did.
Trouble is that no one knows what to think.
Is it ‘Alas, poor Fred‘,
Or ‘Hurray! Sir Fred is dead!’?
We don’t know.
Do you?
By A. Mob, aged 1,378 and a half.
STOP PRESS:
Fed up with being stuck on the Thames in south-east England, London yesterday decided to move. In a dramatic gesture which augurs ill for the Olympics, the city upped sticks and relocated to East Anglia.
Lawyers were not consulted about the move, and the city’s precise motivation remains unclear. However, financiers fear that London’s decision is a sign that it wishes to downsize. Moreover, a source from London said: “We no longer want to be Britain’s seat of power. If the Scots can deregulate, why can’t we? East Anglia is a nice place where nothing happens. It’s time for a quiet life. Please respect our right to privacy.”
Elsewhere, Birmingham did not do anything, but Manchester was seen to be packing its bags. “There’s an opportunity for us,” said Manchester. “We can become London.”
East Anglia said: “We don’t mind. It’ll be refreshing to be associated with something other than fens and flatness.”
A cartologist at CNN, which broke the extraordinary news, was later fired.
We seem to be visually led this week but sometimes words proliferate far too much and letting an image do the talking is no bad thing. That’s another way of saying that ACCESS Agency’s work with Lego is absolutely top drawer.
Is there a geek inside all of us?
Excellent Nike ad
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In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).