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So a couple of things--

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you could send me a couple
of-- if you actually--

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I would really
recommend that you--

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I would love to see you actually
put some of these online,

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because the thing about
this that's the coolest

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is actually getting it online,
is putting it in the space.

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And whether or not people
read it, it's immaterial.

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I mean, obviously, you want to.

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But you could drop me
a line at my email,

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[? antler@thediagram.com. ?]
Feel free to fire it my way

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if you get something up there.

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It doesn't have to be great.

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But I love to see these things
in action, if you can get them

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in action, if you can--

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I mean, like the hip-hop
jazz thing, yeah, absolutely.

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If that gets up there, let me
know because this would be--

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it'd be really awesome to read.

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So there are couple ideas--

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we've got two minutes--

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which I want to
throw through here.

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I mean, obviously, this is
for five major considerations

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with doing work like this.

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One is that,
clearly, the text has

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to be in a conversation with
the space that you're using,

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and with the readers
of that space,

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or where the users
of that space.

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And the deeper the conversation,
the more interesting

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this can become.

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Second question is one of
permanence or impermanence.

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How important is it to you
that this stays online?

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Because misconnections expire.

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Can impermanence become a
feature rather than a flaw?

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Or is it something
that you want to be

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able to memorialize
in, say, screenshots

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of just responses to it?

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Which also suggests if you want
to publish something like this,

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would you publish
screenshots of the sites

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that you installed them in?

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Could you just
include links to it,

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even if the links go with
things that have become defunct?

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This is maybe the
key question to me

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is, if we're going to post
things on different websites,

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especially across
a current span,

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like a three-piece-- a
three-part thing across three

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different websites,
it introduces a lot

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of difficulties for readers.

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I mean, it's got the cool
factor is that that's really

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actually cool.

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It feels more real
and immediate.

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It's more interactive.

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And it does-- we can as
readers could go through it

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and click through it.

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And that's the thing that's
exciting about it, potentially.

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The trick is, it's
also more work, not

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a lot more work for readers.

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So how do we motivate
them to do it?

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Do we motivate them
with a narrative hook?

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Can we motivate them with voice?

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Lots of different
ways to think about.

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How can we unify these
things so that it becomes

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one reading experience
and not just

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here's 10 random
chunks of something

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put on different websites--

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which doesn't sound very sexy
when you put it that way.

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But if you have the same
sort of a character speaking

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in couplets on
different websites,

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that becomes a
little more unified,

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and a little bit
more interesting.

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And obviously,
the point of this,

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as with most writing to my mind,
it should be a directed play.

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We want it to be enjoyable.

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So you want to push
people's buttons.

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You want to do it in a way
that will entertain yourself,

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in whatever way
that means to you.

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And the last one is, how do
we orient the reader who just

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might come to this randomly?

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Is there a way to
try to get them

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to understand what this is?

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Or maybe that's not important.

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Maybe we just want to
bring our own readers

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to these spaces that understand
the project moving forward.

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But we're officially out
of time, I'm sad to say.

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So thank you, guys.

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And please email me.

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[APPLAUSE]

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