Cthalloween officially ended tonight about 45 minutes ago, and it was a ton of fun! Many thanks to our organizers @jaybushman, @kriskowal, @segphault, and yours truly, @joshlewis. A few stats: We had over 1000 tweets during the event itself, not to mention several hundred before and after the official start and end times. 133 people [...]
Kris Kowal; friend, former Apple coworker, and JavaScript god; has taken the ideas in my previous Twitter Fiction entry and the (much-earlier) work of Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul and he has written up a plan. You must read this plan. It sounds to me like Halloween on Twitter is going to be a blast this [...]
There have already been several different attempts to bring fiction writing to Twitter. A couple come to mind: 140novel: An attempt by Leo Laporte and the hosts of the Buzz Out Loud podcast to collaboratively write a work of fiction 140 characters at a time, apparently without knowing where the story was going beforehand. Obviously [...]
