Inspired by this, this, this, this, this and of course this, I thought it was time we had a really slow twitter. Something less rushed and immediate but still brilliantly rich and daft. So I've set up dawdlr.com. (I say 'set-up', I've registered a domain name, created a tumblr blog, rented a mailbox and written this post, and that's it. But you know.)
I've tried to make dawdlr way slower than twitter. I reckon most people I know twitter about twice a day, so dawdlr is going to update twice a year. To try and get people to say what they're doing, you know, more generally.
To submit a dawdl send a postcard to this address:
dawdlr
77 Beak Street
London
W1F 9DB
I'll scan them in and upload and update them every 6 months. Regular as clockwork. I'm curious to see if something that slow can be 'viral' or will it just dwindle to nothing as everyone forgets last time around. Or if it's not an immediate enough call to action to get people to participate, or if actually getting a postcard and writing on it is too much work. Or whether, maybe, it'll all work and be rather nice.
Dawdlr is a tiny community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing, you know, more generally? Answers on a postcard please.
Brilliant...
Posted by: Robin Grant | May 21, 2007 at 10:08 PM
Nice idea. Like it a lot.
Posted by: Will | May 21, 2007 at 10:40 PM
fantastic! and in the spirit of dawdl, i'm writing a postcard now, putting in my moleskine diary and will carry it around for 3.5 weeks before eventually sending it, dog-eared and smudged.
Posted by: lauren | May 21, 2007 at 10:59 PM
"Life is what happens when we are busy doing something else"
Posted by: Christian | May 21, 2007 at 11:03 PM
Absolutely lovely idea, what am I doing generally is usually more interesting than the inevitable making coffee on twitter.
Posted by: Gavin Bell | May 22, 2007 at 02:42 PM
nice. can't wait to see how this goes.
i hope it takes off and you get lots of interesting stuff.
you probably already know of this one, but if not...
you could seed a few addressed postcards with a one or two line instruction written/printed on them around on your travels like the author of the Postsecret books did to collect people's secrets. he left them in various public places like coffee shops, book stores, etc.
this helped it really take off for him from what i read in an interview with him: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
Posted by: [ paul isakson ] | May 23, 2007 at 05:56 AM
lovely.
Posted by: beeker | May 25, 2007 at 09:16 AM
I love the fact that the way to post on dawdlr is through snail mail. Love it! How interesting will you mailbox be...I mean physical mailbox rather than email..you know what I mean. We don't send enough letters anymore and that's really sad
Posted by: Laura Tjia | June 01, 2007 at 12:25 AM
I'm all adawdlr over this.
Posted by: lawrie hunter | November 22, 2007 at 01:53 PM