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FAILcamp came from a silly, somewhat drunken conversation at the end of Moseley Barcamp between Ben Whitehouse and Pete Ashton. Here’s what Ben says:
It seems every event I go to people get up, talk about how great they are, how great their website is, how great the Birmingham community is and I agree with these notions but their website didn’t plop onto the interwebs fully formed. There must have been ideas rejected, things trialed, stuff that cocked up and I’m interested in those things.
One of the major tenets of social media is that failure is good. When the cost of doing stuff drops to zero you can afford to fail so failure becomes part of the process. Jon Bounds is a great example of someone who uses failure effectively. Jon seemingly launches a new project every other day be it a blog, a collaborative Google map or some other thing. Most of them don’t gain traction and fade into obscurity but those that do succeed do so in really interesting ways. And, I believe, without that constant failure Jon’s take on the Internet wouldn’t be half as radically insightful.
