Thanks for the apology – following you on Friday really was no fun! I’ll read the book at some point, but probably won’t bother twittering about this or any other book in the near future. I can see that it could be useful to get feedback as you’re reading though. But what if it really took off? What if hundreds of people joined in? You’d spend all your time reading the tweets instead of the book.
[...] recent experiment with, of all things, a live book review on Twitter demonstrated that the boundary between publishing and conversation becomes blurred when you use the [...]
[...] Twitter-reviewing – some reflections – Online Journalism Blog “What I discovered was this: it was about a conversation, not a publication:” (tags: internet blogging microblogging reviews twitter) [...]
Thanks for the apology – following you on Friday really was no fun! I’ll read the book at some point, but probably won’t bother twittering about this or any other book in the near future. I can see that it could be useful to get feedback as you’re reading though. But what if it really took off? What if hundreds of people joined in? You’d spend all your time reading the tweets instead of the book.
[...] recent experiment with, of all things, a live book review on Twitter demonstrated that the boundary between publishing and conversation becomes blurred when you use the [...]
[...] Twitter-reviewing – some reflections – Online Journalism Blog “What I discovered was this: it was about a conversation, not a publication:” (tags: internet blogging microblogging reviews twitter) [...]
[...] http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/04/04/live-reviewing-a-book-on-twitter-here-comes-everybody-by-clay-shirky/ and here’s a reflection http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/04/07/twitter-reviewing-some-reflections/ [...]