Aug/090
Stretching SMS out across the internet is a complex business
What wonder of modern civilization the Internet is.
I think of it like the wheel. And sometimes even like fire…
The arena that is the Internet is a porous affair, a permeable membrane… a space where fault lines cross, rivers converge and ideas splinter in a trillion directions.
SMS is out there now. Goodness knows who’s picking it up and playing with it. There could well be someone in Alaska under the influence, or a Russian child dreaming of how to do the same thing over there.
This blog continues, and will keep on going…
The Facebook Group is well and truly on the march: 62 members from many countries and counties, & 250 photographs, each of which tells a story.
And so far we have only scratched the surface.
Not a single newspaper, radio station or TV programme-maker has picked up the story of how this blog is an interesting innovation. No one’s come to us and said “tell us the story of why you’re doing this… Why blog SMS?”
It’ll be interesting to see who gets that story first.
Jul/093
SMS on the move: the challenge of getting this blog off the ground
How on earth will we build up a following, a readership, an audience?
That’s what I’m wondering.
On the one hand, there’s this extraordinary “event”, SMS, which already has a personality – a rich, textured, tuneful history…
Years of remarkable effort & successes.
SMS has transformed lives.
One of my wife’s friends contacted me from London to say:
“How do you know Bob Creech? My son was at SMS for 5 years. It was wonderful.”
I only began hearing stories about SMS recently. The stories grabbed my imagination & influenced me. The more I hear, the more I feel open-mouthed about what been achieved over the years.
Then there’s this blog.
A new kid on the block. Hardly anyone over 35 in Ireland knows what a blog is. (OK, I exaggerate.) But I bet almost all the kids who come to SMS this year know about Bebo… I bet they use the internet a lot.
So this format, this platform, is tuned into the world of the future.
Hopefully, if we do it well, we’ll have plenty of older people coming here because it’s going to be interesting.
There won’t be all that much stuff about SMS in traditional media (newspapers, TV, radio): there’ll be plenty here.