So a couple of things--
you could send me a couple of-- if you actually--
I would really recommend that you--
I would love to see you actually put some of these online,
because the thing about this that's the coolest
is actually getting it online, is putting it in the space.
And whether or not people read it, it's immaterial.
I mean, obviously, you want to.
But you could drop me a line at my email,
[? antler@thediagram.com. ?] Feel free to fire it my way
if you get something up there.
It doesn't have to be great.
But I love to see these things in action, if you can get them
in action, if you can--
I mean, like the hip-hop jazz thing, yeah, absolutely.
If that gets up there, let me know because this would be--
it'd be really awesome to read.
So there are couple ideas--
we've got two minutes--
which I want to throw through here.
I mean, obviously, this is for five major considerations
with doing work like this.
One is that, clearly, the text has
to be in a conversation with the space that you're using,
and with the readers of that space,
or where the users of that space.
And the deeper the conversation, the more interesting
this can become.
Second question is one of permanence or impermanence.
How important is it to you that this stays online?
Because misconnections expire.
Can impermanence become a feature rather than a flaw?
Or is it something that you want to be
able to memorialize in, say, screenshots
of just responses to it?
Which also suggests if you want to publish something like this,
would you publish screenshots of the sites
that you installed them in?
Could you just include links to it,
even if the links go with things that have become defunct?
This is maybe the key question to me
is, if we're going to post things on different websites,
especially across a current span,
like a three-piece-- a three-part thing across three
different websites, it introduces a lot
of difficulties for readers.
I mean, it's got the cool factor is that that's really
actually cool.
It feels more real and immediate.
It's more interactive.
And it does-- we can as readers could go through it
and click through it.
And that's the thing that's exciting about it, potentially.
The trick is, it's also more work, not
a lot more work for readers.
So how do we motivate them to do it?
Do we motivate them with a narrative hook?
Can we motivate them with voice?
Lots of different ways to think about.
How can we unify these things so that it becomes
one reading experience and not just
here's 10 random chunks of something
put on different websites--
which doesn't sound very sexy when you put it that way.
But if you have the same sort of a character speaking
in couplets on different websites,
that becomes a little more unified,
and a little bit more interesting.
And obviously, the point of this,
as with most writing to my mind, it should be a directed play.
We want it to be enjoyable.
So you want to push people's buttons.
You want to do it in a way that will entertain yourself,
in whatever way that means to you.
And the last one is, how do we orient the reader who just
might come to this randomly?
Is there a way to try to get them
to understand what this is?
Or maybe that's not important.
Maybe we just want to bring our own readers
to these spaces that understand the project moving forward.
But we're officially out of time, I'm sad to say.
So thank you, guys.
And please email me.
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