tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316886317870996102.post7281123181460497356..comments2023-04-06T11:51:16.564-04:00Comments on Dr. Syntax: What Publishing Needs Much More Of : FailurePeter Ginnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00678504299313188170noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316886317870996102.post-21095878942679660712009-12-07T11:26:45.713-05:002009-12-07T11:26:45.713-05:00Gwen, that's a wonderful quote from Edison. Be...Gwen, that's a wonderful quote from Edison. Ben, "imperfect success" may be a nice way of putting it. <br /><br />By the way, reading about Electric Literature led me on to Ben White's site, Nanoism.net, which he was apparently too modest to mention in his comment. Anyone interested in the potential of Twitter-sized fiction should visit it, or follow the @nanoism Twitter stream. I have enjoyed reading whole stories told in 140 characters, like this one: <br /><br />He wrote the poem out for her carefully and she folded it just as carefully and slid it under the short leg of the table.Peter Ginnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00678504299313188170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316886317870996102.post-30543395354094315852009-12-05T17:52:50.179-05:002009-12-05T17:52:50.179-05:00Perhaps it wasn't an ideal reading experience,...Perhaps it wasn't an ideal reading experience, but it's certainly not a failure. Electric Literature wanted to embrace Twitter and wanted to increase the size of their audience on Twitter. <br /><br />They gained over 10,000 followers with this story. Success and publishing are also about reach, so I'd call this an imperfect success.OHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02067433464196821903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316886317870996102.post-61961516138810145162009-12-05T15:07:05.882-05:002009-12-05T15:07:05.882-05:00"I missed %100 of the shots I didn't take..."I missed %100 of the shots I didn't take"<br />-also Wayne Gretzky<br /><br />Nothing ventured, nothing gained.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316886317870996102.post-78662708753550724092009-12-05T12:26:53.111-05:002009-12-05T12:26:53.111-05:00Thomas Edison once said, "I have not failed. ...Thomas Edison once said, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."<br /><br />Something unexpected will come along and disrupt publishing as we know it, but not without those willing to fail in the effort.Gwen Hernandezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01394401588845644494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316886317870996102.post-78424775053900924692009-12-04T10:13:45.026-05:002009-12-04T10:13:45.026-05:00Thanks to all for the comments. Shoshana, I'm ...Thanks to all for the comments. Shoshana, I'm glad to hear that you have found something positive in your experience with Twitter. As Doug Hunter knows, Twitter may not be so much a marketing tool as a place to make serendipitous connections (to find a puck where you weren't expecting it?). DOT, there's an interesting post by John Byrne on his blog about how hard it is for print media in particular to embrace online opportunities: http://bit.ly/8Tmz9zPeter Ginnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00678504299313188170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316886317870996102.post-9942999452970182332009-12-04T05:20:50.836-05:002009-12-04T05:20:50.836-05:00Hooray for failure, indeed. How I agree with you. ...Hooray for failure, indeed. How I agree with you. In times of ripeness, industries are happy to take risks; in times of uncertainties, they cling to the mountain of past achievement, like bad skiers, in the hope that what succeeded before will succeed again, forgetting what they cling to was built on risk.DOThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00719312854612984929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316886317870996102.post-4444354450346480742009-12-04T03:54:28.597-05:002009-12-04T03:54:28.597-05:00Experimentation never has failure. As we are learn...Experimentation never has failure. As we are learning at French Creek Press, Twitter publicity just hasn't worked for us. But the experiment has not failed. It gave us valuable insight into viral marketing that we wouldn't have if we didn't attempt the experiment in the first place.shoshanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11130516772217193818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316886317870996102.post-64252757725029261462009-12-03T17:17:40.666-05:002009-12-03T17:17:40.666-05:00The Great One (Mr. Gretzky) also famously succeede...The Great One (Mr. Gretzky) also famously succeeded by skating to where the puck was going to be, not where it was. Anticipation was everything.<br />—Douglas HunterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com