I’m a big admirer of Paul Bradshaw. It’s heartening to know that we have tutors of his quality working in journalism education.
But I can’t see the point in this: Live-reviewing a book on Twitter.
Now I’m sure that Paul is merely experimenting with this technique. It’s always good to do that, but really, this is just Twitter overkil. On Twitter, I follow Paul Bradshaw’s tweets. Indeed, today, I’m ONLY following Paul Bradshaw’s tweets. Most of the others have been pushed off the page.
Twitter is the perfect tool to cover a developing story. Or to give momentary status updates of interest.
A book is a book. It’s not changing. Read it all and then tell me whether it’s any good or not.
You can’t provide live coverage of something that is, y’know, not live!
LOL, well it is experimentation, and I wanted to see what would happen – who would follow, who would join in, what we could do. A twitter book club.
It’s also an experiment in viral marketing – would word spread? Jeff Jarvis linked on his twitter account, but that seems to have had little effect – I’ve only gained another 10-15 followers today, if that stuff matters to you.
And it was a way to make sure I read the book.
I wish I’d done it as a sponsored book read for charity or something though.
Have to agree Dave – I’m afraid I stopped following Paul for the day (sorry Paul).