Opening up

Hi UB3: The Den!
For this second challenge we have been working our local community over here in G-RAD. But, now we would really like to open it up to the UB3 family at large! Since even before this contest began we have been thinking a lot about blogging as a medium and how it can be abstracted and taken into the "physical world." To wit, we are conducting an experiment in participatory paper blogging at our favorite coffee house in downtown Grand Rapids, Four Friends. We made a poster (or as we have taken to calling it: a mobile blogging module - because that is funnier for some reason) and posted it in the back of the shop for people to stumble upon on their way to the bathroom, or out the back door. The poster prompts the potential participant to take one of the post-its provided, write a "paper blog entry" and literally post it back on the blog. We are really excited about the people who will just run across it and participate, but we have also put out a plea for participation on the front page of G-RAD. Sadly, many members of the G-RAD community no longer live in the Grand Rapids area, or have difficulty working in a trip to Four Friends into their busy schedules. Realizing this, we are accepting online submissions of blogs posts written on paper that are scanned or photographed and then either e-mailed to us or uploaded to flickr and tagged "ub3paperblog." We would love it if you guys participated as well!!

Criteria? There is no criteria! We are interested in anything you can give us! It can be a drawing, or a story, or something that happened to you today. even something you have found on the street. Anything you would consider blogging online we would like you to consider committing to paper and sending it to us! The only limitation, really, is that we need your submissions by tomorrow (Tuesday 10/18) at 9:00pm EST. That way we will have enough time to get each of the pieces worked into our final product. Yeah, that's it!

We look forward to seeing how you guys blog offline!
Love,
Team G-RAD