Fotologging comes to the Apple Centre in Regent Street . May 2006

Adam Seifer, the founder of Fotolog.com, says the daily aspect of photo-blogging creates a vibrant online community, and this is reiterated by James Diggle, a London-based 'logger', who gives some examples that are also featured in the Fotolog.com book produced by Thames and Hudson. The Q&A at the end of the presentation produced few questions and the event faded into the evening.
I walk up the road to Paul's Cafe in Regent Street with Douglas, who's been hibernating in the shed for some time, and wondered if TA could produce a book that represented the Text America Community.

(0340) Posted on 5/19/2006 1:29:47 PM | TA Comments

1. Posted by viory on 5/20/2006 4:49:45 AM
that would be great!

2. Posted by tony on 5/20/2006 4:59:18 AM
Hi Viory .. the fotoblog.com was initiated by a 'fotologger' working at the publisher Thames & Hudson'. Now I wonder if the people in San Diego can persuade a publisher to do a TA Book. It will become a unique piece of history .. and be fascinating to look back at in say 10 years! Maybe they could edit the book and publish through http://www.lulu.com ?

3. Posted by viory on 5/20/2006 5:14:25 AM
wow, you found a publisher for it already. maurits should know about this. i know he has been making notes to write a novel about blogging the first 1 1/2 year he was on ta...

4. Posted by tony on 5/20/2006 5:23:00 AM
Viory, 'Lulu' is one of a number of 'online publishers'. It's worth trying something like this on a very small project first - a sort of learning project - and then gradually working up to the BIG project.

5. Posted by stewart on 5/20/2006 1:51:52 PM
Sounds a brilliant idea to me, once it gets started it could be upgraded to improve on it, a kind of evolution thing, yeah great idea, go for it someone.

6. Posted by tony on 5/20/2006 1:58:31 PM
Stewart .. we just need to pool our resources - which means 'money'. Unless we think we can make our money back (break even) by selling the book it will probably be a non-starter - but you never know.

7. Posted by Odon on 5/20/2006 3:00:51 PM
Really, a book with TA photos could be great. But sometimes I think that I don't know the real dimension of TA.

8. Posted by robertm on 5/21/2006 10:45:45 AM
there must be quite a lot of stuff that could go in a book on TA, it would be good to see -- robert (I thought I would not ask any awkward questions)

9. Posted by tony on 5/21/2006 11:25:20 PM
Odon, I'm also not sure the extent of TA and a book made by and for TA people may well be the vehicle for illuminating us .. and other people who want to become invloved in this form of community.

10. Posted by tony on 5/22/2006 12:09:56 AM
Robert, it's worth having a look at the 'Fotologging' book to see how they treated the subject. I think TA is a smaller enterprise, and being driven by the people living in San Diego therefore has a certain spirit or sense of identity. Maybe how we identify with TA could give a book some of its impetus. I think also the history of the name 'Text America' would also be important to look at - and also how the name itself probably limits the extent to which people would use this place for 'social networking' or any sort of 'blogging'. The other aspect of the book could be about how Text America changes its name to achieve a more global presence (more users) - this is the future - BTW - Blog The World!!