It’s not just on Twitter where people are pondering FAILcamp. Some have even gone to their blogs and written words. Here’s a brief roundup:
Chronologically first is my semi-drunken ramblings on the subject from Sunday night, followed the next day by Ben’s announcement. These two constitute the beginning of it all and as such will probably bear little relation to how the event actually turns out. There’s some good action in the comments which is worth checking out.
Ben was on a roll and before I could get this blog sorted had posted two more posts. Two ideas for FAILcamp attempts to break the remit beyond social-bloody-media citing Cake Wrecks and suggesting an exhibition of objects and photographs. He then notes we’re not the first to have this idea which is great as it means we’re probably onto something.
But there’s still a lot to talk about in relation to social-bloody-media. David Wilcox at Social Reporter quickly latched onto the importance of sharing stories:
Working out just what sort of social network or other tool may help isn’t simple … it depends enormously on the situation, the people and many other factors. The answer to “what works?” is “it depends” … and that’s when the stories of what didn’t work are so useful.
Russell Tanner wrote a lovely post about his experiences with failure, specifically from his days as a fashion student:
The failures informed the successes. And sometimes, by happy accident, the failures were better than the original idea. Failure was also public – through regular open criticism by tutors (or routine humiliation in front of peers. which was nice. but did help teach me how to interrogate and criticise my ideas. or to argue for them).
I still fail on a daily basis. But I don’t share my failures so much. Or take time to properly reflect on them/learn from them. Partly due to pressures on my time, partly due to laziness/complacency. But mostly because it has somehow become the wrong thing to do.
And that’s why a celebration of failure is so exciting to me. Because it was my failures, & what they taught me, that fueled my creativity and made my work better then. And made me who I am now. And I want to celebrate that.
And I think we should fail and fail again. better. and more often.
So far that’s it. If you blog about FAILcamp and link to this site then we should pick up on it but feel free to leave a link in the comments below just in case.
