In this version of a collaborative journals project, Someguy has a name: Tom. TOMs Book is a beautifully designed German site featuring 80 traveling journals. The theme is Newspapers -- people's emotions, reactions, thoughts, and opinions on what they find in the paper. Tom writes he had seven boxes filled with clippings which at some point in his life moved him and couldn't be thrown away. And so TOMs Book was born, inspired by 1000 Journals, and a bet with a friend.
In the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung is this story about TOM's Book and 1000 Journals...
Update 02/16/2009: Another progress report (in German) is here: Rhein Zeitung Online
Apropos Newspaper... I love the oxymoron, Newseum, but I love even more that the Newseum publishes a daily gallery of international front pages: www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages
The Newseum archive for November 5th, 2008 really makes our world a small place...
I love the description of the German books: Wandertagebücher, the wandering journals. This clever reader engagement device really gives a new perspective to newspapers and young readers. Yelling at the Editorial Page was my idea of "interactive," until I read this article.
Posted by: QuinnCreative | February 26, 2009 at 09:40 AM