April 29, 2010
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1B1T
Voting just closed on the One Book One Twitter project. What’s that? Well it’s exactly what it sounds like. It’s a project to try and get all of twitter to read one book at one time.
Discussion of 1B1T occurs under hashtag #1B1T. The book to read was chosen through a community voting process. I don’t think they’ve tallied the votes yet but earlier the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman was a front runner.
It’s an interesting way to reveal and possibly build up shared values or at least shared perspectives. It gets people talking and thinking about the same thing. The hope is that these interactions can bring people together. It can help our contentious societies be a little more peaceful. We’ll see that we’re not all that different after all since we can all read and enjoy the same book.
I’ll probably read whatever the 1B1T book is. My twitter account is http://twitter.com/nephyo I hope if you’re on twitter, you will too.
