Idea: Set up Twitter accounts for all of the many Terrible Ideas we have throughout the day. These will be Our Proposed Failures for the reader on the go, allowing a window into our ridiculous thought processes in real time.
How It Works: Those two boxes on this site? The ones labeled "Greg's Bad Ideas" and "Ted's Bad Ideas"? That's where these tweets will go. We tweet them, you read them. If you're so inclined, you can follow us. On Twitter. I'm not sure if I have to explain how Twitter works, but I think you get it.
These tweeted proposals will be, of course, short. They won't require any explanation, so they won't get full posts. Most likely they'll never be put into effect, so you'll just have to imagine all the spectacular failures that would await us if we took all these ideas we have on a daily basis seriously.
We do, however, reserve the right to recycle any of them into full posts later on, if we feel we need a little more actual failure in our lives.
Why It's a Terrible Idea: I can't speak for Greg, but I can definitely say that I'm not the kind of person who's going to be good at keeping up with a Twitter account. Try this at home: look at the dates of all the posts on this blog up until now. Just a quick glance, there are only a few.
See that? That total lack of dedication to actually putting our thoughts into words on the internet? That's not good for a blog, but it's pretty much death on Twitter.
For argument's sake, though, let's imagine that having this convenient, text-messageable tool at our fingertips all the time will inspire regular updates. Do you think the stupid ideas that pop into my head all day are really worth reading? How many people do you think will?
My guess is I'll get 5 followers, Greg'll get 15, and that'll be that.
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