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catherwood
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 		Blueful
storytelling across tons of Web 2.0 platforms
This sounds to me perhaps closer in feel to a puzzle trail, less ARG or Chaotic Fiction,
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Blueful is a fascinating Web 2.0 story, written across a series of Web 2.0 services, and maybe the most ambitious of all time.

Here's how it works: pieces of the story, often text, appear on a site. Then a link to the next one appears, usually as unlinked text, somewhere on the page.

It all starts with a basic web page, www.blueful.com, then advances to Flickr, LastFM, Twitter, a WordPress blog, a LiveJournal blog, Google Calendar, Google Groups, Google Docs, Google Maps, a Wikipedia user tab, a MySpace page, a del.icio.us account, a Craigslist listing, an Imageshack image, YouTube subtitles, a Zoho slidehow, a Ta-da list, Ning, Sharemusic, a Polldaddy poll (!), Cafepress items, an OKCupid entry, and more. If you get stuck, check the last site you found for a keyword in quotes, head back to the original Blueful page, and enter that word there to get a URL.

(quoting from http://infocult.typepad.com/ where some of the flikr images are also previewed)

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degravedi
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 		I found that just a few days ago. It's beautiful, but unfortunately a few of the parts have gone missing.

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Caseys_Mom
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 		dead end?
Some of the places it leads you to have been deleted..... Sad

----------------------------------------------------

Nevermind.... I made it through...



Thanks for posting the link...

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Oriza
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 		What a marvelous story.
Thanks for sharing it with us, Cather Smile
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jelloarm
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 		I'm definitely doing the rest of it.

Did you guys find anything missing other than the wiki and the mailinator? Those were the ones I couldn't do.
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coffeegirl18
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 		Interesting storyline...definitely following it.

Stuck on the wiki page...it's been deleted. Please post the password so I can go through the next part.

Apparently this is a precusor/beta test to the main story. Obviously a note that it tears down the curtain.
http://www.metafilter.com/78739/Blueful


Spoilers as to sites used.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I'm missing a few pages of story. Specifically Ta-da, and imageshack.

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el Igore
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 		Wow! This was a moving story.

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Let's see if they send the postcards to Germany too.


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PhaetonXL
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 		Wow...beautiful thing ;o)
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coffeegirl18
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el Igore wrote:
Wow! This was a moving story.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Let's see if they send the postcards to Germany too.


I sadly was unable to finish it due to the broken links. Could you maybe link me to the one page noted above.


Any reading Blue Laguna? It's a cool story.
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jelloarm
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 		Yeah, I'm working on it on the side. Gives me a non-reason to be late for class.

"Uh... I was playing text-based games," surprisingly does not fly in Issues Affecting Persons With Disabilities.
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el Igore
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coffeegirl18 wrote:
I sadly was unable to finish it due to the broken links. Could you maybe link me to the one page noted above.

On every page of the story there is a word in quotation marks near the link to the next page. If you got stuck, type this word in the box at the bottom of the mainpage (http://www.blueful.com/) and it brings you to an alternate page to the one that is broken.

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coffeegirl18
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el Igore wrote:
coffeegirl18 wrote:
I sadly was unable to finish it due to the broken links. Could you maybe link me to the one page noted above.

On every page of the story there is a word in quotation marks near the link to the next page. If you got stuck, type this word in the box at the bottom of the mainpage (http://www.blueful.com/) and it brings you to an alternate page to the one that is broken.


Ah ok. I thought it meant to go back to x page you enter the password.
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WolfHawk
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 		Wow, this is pretty cool! I'm in awe of this person!
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coffeegirl18
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 		Love the storyline and have started reading Blue Lacuna. Very Happy

Also waiting for my card.
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jelloarm
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 		Blue Lacuna's a lot of fun. I'm really enjoying it.
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