Today I started this hashtag #oneTweetBookProposal and now @tmccormick made @1TweetBookProps and I can't tell if he's serious or not.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
[from Wikipedia]:
Ian Bogost is a video game designer, critic and researcher. He holds a joint professorship in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and in Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Chair in Media Studies.[1] He is a founding partner at Persuasive Games. His research and writing consider video games as an expressive medium, and his creative practice focuses on games about social and political issues
@ibogost I'm serious, because this is funny. It's #agile #literature.
— 1TweetBookProposals (@1TweetBookProps) August 4, 2013
@ibogost @tmccormick @1TweetBookProps Pitch it quick and sell it fast!
— Ryan Leonski (@subliminalman) August 4, 2013
@subliminalman @ibogost @tmccormick pitch it!? to whom? I'm doing it. Publishers? We don't need no stinkin' publishers!
— 1TweetBookProposals (@1TweetBookProps) August 4, 2013
@subliminalman @ibogost @tmccormick "Kickstarter?": phaps. I was thinking to simply explore how fast/easily I can get it up for sale myself.
— 1TweetBookProposals (@1TweetBookProps) August 4, 2013
@ibogost "One-Tweet Book Proposals": ebook collection of 200 best now out! Just 99¢ PDF at http://t.co/fpxs7FQlp1 #onetweetbookproposals
— 1TweetBookProposals (@1TweetBookProps) August 4, 2013
Seems @tmccormick is actually trying to profiteer #OneTweetBookProposals, http://t.co/ogmqFBqewm. I still can't tell if he's joking?
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
https://twitter.com/blairmacintyre/status/364061480020627456
From Twitter bio:
Blair MacIntyre: Professor at Georgia Tech, Augmented Reality Researcher, co-Founder of Aura Interactive. Atlanta, GA · blairmacintyre.com
https://twitter.com/atkaaz/status/364036355472359425
@atkaaz @tmccormick yeah, probably.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@ibogost Is @tmccormick working with you on @1TweetBookProps? Where are profits going?
— Nyasha Junior (@NyashaJunior) August 4, 2013
Nyasha Junior is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the Howard University School of Divinity, Washington D.C. Blog @NoExtraCredit, Web nyashajunior.com.
@ibogost @NyashaJunior If only he had included that Tweet from Ed O'Bannon, we could have us a real legal shindig!
— Ike Pigott (@ikepigott) August 4, 2013
@NyashaJunior @tmccormick @1TweetBookProps In true Silicon Valley fashion, into his greedy, sweaty hands. What a douchebag.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
This looks fun. @tmccormick: "One-Tweet Book Proposals": ebook volume of 200 best literary lampoons…Just 99¢ PDF! http://t.co/awABU7GHKM
— Karen Wickre (@kvox) August 4, 2013
@ibogost @tmccormick August 13, 2013? Is this guy a time traveller?
— catherine liu (@bureaucatliu) August 4, 2013
[note: I’d mistakenly put “August 13” in the the ebook description on Gumroad.com book page].
Catherine Liu is Director, UC Irivine Humanities Center, Film & Media Studies, and Professor of Film & Media Studies. Author of The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique. [from UCI faculty page].
@cliu_uc @tmccormick The future comes sooner in Palo Alto.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@ibogost "We enable thousands of creators to make millions of dollars."
— Josh Honn (@joshhonn) August 4, 2013
Josh Honn is Digital Scholarship Fellow at the Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation, Northwestern University, where he consults and collaborates with faculty and graduate students on digital humanities pedagogy and research projects. (from joshhonn.com).
“We enable thousands of creators to make millions of dollars” is the current tagline of Gumroad, the site on which the “One-Tweet Book Proposals” ebook was offered for sale.
@joshhonn Pretty sure they mean, "We enable thousands of creators to make us millions of dollars."
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@ibogost Precisely; and by creators, they of course also mean "curators."
— Josh Honn (@joshhonn) August 4, 2013
@ibogost D ibogost I know Tim McC. from college. He's not a greedy douchebag. Just sometimes an overzealous fan.
— Elizabeth Goodman (@egoodman) August 4, 2013
Elizabeth Goodman is a designer, researcher, and writer on interaction design and ubiquitous computing living in San Francisco. She is currently a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. (from her site Confectious.net).
@egoodman Maybe he's just a lousy one. A truly effective greedy douchebag would have chosen a more marketable target!
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
As of 9:30am PST, Ian Bogost’s twitter account @ibogost is apparently blocking my account @tmccormick, meaning I cannot message him there, or see his postings in my home timeline.
@tcarmody Quick, write a #OneTweetBookProposal for "Golf for the Soul" so that @tmccormick can steal it.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
So far on Sun 04 July (to 11:20am PST), 14 new “One-Tweet Book Proposals” have been posted via #onetweetbookproposals.
@tmccormick @blairmacintyre @nyashajunior @cliu_uc @joshhonn @egoodman I never blocked your account. Change that now.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
Update 04 July 1155 PST: Public comments left by Bogost via Disqus comments on site:
2:35 p.m., Sunday Aug. 4
Email address: [redacted] | IP address: 24.18.236.252
I never blocked you on Twitter. Claiming others work as yours by putting your name on it is one kind of assholery. Slandering me directly is another. Fix it.
2:37 p.m., Sunday Aug. 4
I never blocked you on Twitter. Are you lying about that as part of your perverse trolling experiment, or do you actually believe it to be true?
Response: I observed (in post above) that account @ibogost apparently blocking account @tmccormick, because @ibogost posts in conversations were showing up as unavailable/”protected,” as shown in screenshot. (Note, I said “account” deliberately rather than Bogost because it is possible that blocking could be done by error, algorithm, or Twitter administrators).
@ibogost oh it appeared so b/c your posts were showing as "protected," see screenshot/comments http://t.co/9n98Gy16YE #onetweetbookproposals
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick Perhaps it was a Twitter weirdness. Perhaps you Photoshopped those images. I have no idea who you are or why you are doing this.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick I'll give you a chance to just tell me now. What is it you are trying to accomplish?
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@ibogost I was doing an experiment in Twitter archiving & rapid ebook publishing.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@ibogost as it happens, I'm also intrstd in academic-public interactions, e.g. open access & public scholarship, and commenting/discussion.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick Even if that's the case, you come off as a total creep. Can you understand that at all?
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick Also, please remove my email address from your weird, deranged postings of Disqus comment updates.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick You have a very, very strange way of showing your interest.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@ibogost perhaps. But I'd think you wouldn't have such a problem with strange, per se.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick There's strange as charmingly/challenging curious and strange as just creepy. You're the latter.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@ibogost well, ok, it's your view. To me, it's remarkable to publicly write such things when, as you noted, you have no idea who I am.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick This is the point where a normal person would apologize, take down the posts, and move on. Will you do that?
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick To write what? To tell you that you that you are making me uncomfortable, that I find your behavior disturbing?
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick You created a relationship of distrust with me. You delivered on that distrust. Now I'm at fault for finding you untrustworthy?
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick Let's bracket the publishing project, which I find immoral and craven. Your blog & tweets are disturbing. They feel threatening.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@ibogost I'm sorry you feel that way. I don't know in what way I could be threatening you, & since it's all public, others can assess.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@ibogost @tmccormick I agree with everything Ian's said on this thread. Further more, how does one unsubscribe from an "open experiment"?
— Josh Honn (@joshhonn) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick I don't think it's productive for us to interact any further. I hope you'll remove your blog post and cease your experiment.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick @gleemie You don't know me, but as a Twitter bystander, I sympathize w/ @ibogost. Your ebook is predatory and just plain weird.
— S. Dungeon (@scd) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick Glad you find the conversation useful. I just wanted to express that I found your "experiment" offensive and silly. I'm done.
— S. Dungeon (@scd) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick Creative Commons suggests that people make things for free w/expectation that unanticipated derivative work be non-profit.
— Lilly Irani (@gleemie) August 4, 2013
While I am sorry that @ibogost is going through this, I think this episode is a lovely illustration of the exploitation of "openness"
— Lilly Irani (@gleemie) August 4, 2013
@gleemie I think CC today inclines fairly strongly to a free-culture, CC-BY view which explicitly allows commercial reuse.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick at most basic level, did you think people would have no problem that you were maybe making profit from their words?
— Lilly Irani (@gleemie) August 4, 2013
@gleemie think tweets have often been included & collected into books. They’re published for reuse, eg RTing, & prob not (c)able b/c length.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick copyright isn't justice. Law is a punt for justice. Justices as to be worked out esp as technologies destabilize the terms
— Lilly Irani (@gleemie) August 4, 2013
@gleemie I didn’t have a particular view on that. I do experiments like this to in part learn what people think.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick read kim christen on colonialism, Australian indigenous archives, and open access if you really want to learn
— Lilly Irani (@gleemie) August 4, 2013
@gleemie I'd actually think, from your work, you might sympathize with efforts to get compensation from informal digital work.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick yes I would sympathize if the people being "curated" were also being compensated.
— Lilly Irani (@gleemie) August 4, 2013
@gleemie huge portions of all knowledge work is not compensated directly: eg FOSS, Wikipedia, most scholarship, #CHI2013 Proceedings papers.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@gleemie I might argue it's worse for a publicly-funded researcher to not make their work public. I didn't take any money, block any access.
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick researchers are fighting that fight in diff ways. Hashtag tweeters did work in public! And then you privatized the work again!
— Lilly Irani (@gleemie) August 4, 2013
@gleemie I didn't privatize, in that the material is avail as publicly as before. I created new forms to preserve & bring to other audiences
— Tim McCormick (@tmccormick) August 4, 2013
@tmccormick okay. Well since it seems like you aren't really taking any of this on board, back to reading about coding on periphery for me.
— Lilly Irani (@gleemie) August 4, 2013
"Complete Guide to The Seven People Who Paid for The #OneTweetBookProposals PDF (includes name, email, cellphone, home address, and more!)"
— sterling crispin (@sterlingcrispin) August 4, 2013
A collection of #OneTweetBookProposals
— McKenzie Wark (@mckenziewark) August 4, 2013
Update 04 Aug 2050PST – confirmed @tmccormick account blocked by @ibogost.
See screenshot below – click on to view full-size.
Note: @ibogost has 19,756 followers. The “followed by.. 100+ others” indicates we have over 100 mutual followers, who would see in their timelines not only regular tweets but any reply message (i.e. prefaced by @username) between Bogost and me. This list is primarily academics, journalists, writers, and media sources in higher education and digital humanities.
Update 04 Aug 2200PST – changed price for “One-Tweet Book Proposals” ebook on Gumroad from 99¢ to free. Note, I set up the ebook with a 99¢ price on Gumroad and made one purchase to test the mechanism, but it was subsequently turned it off and never accepted a payment from anyone else.
I am interested to see if people have concerns with tweet collection in the case of an ebook (PDF) offered at no charge. It could be seen as a type of “storify” collection, blog post, or book. I am also continuing to experiment with various ways to present Tweet series as compound “long form” works.
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What do you think? In what ways might be acceptable or useful for your tweets to be collected? Please comment using Disqus box below (connect w/Twitter, Facebook, G+, or Disqus account), or on Twitter with a link to the post and/or me @tmccormick and/or hashtag #onetweetbookproposals, or email me at tmccormick (at) gmail.com.
I never blocked you on Twitter. Claiming others work as yours by putting your name on it is one kind of assholery. Slandering me directly is another. Fix it.
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