[FM Discuss] almost but no cigar

[helen varley jamieson]

darn - that is a bit crap if a voting machine would be able to skew 
something like that! surely there should be some way to stop that kind 
of thing happening?

however as you say there are lots of good things & certainly the amount 
of publicity & word of mouth spreading of booki has been great. good to 
hear also about the positive reception at transmediale.

the real prize here is booki :)

h : )

On 6/02/11 1:08 AM, adam hyde wrote:
> hey all,
>
> We didn't get the votes. Almost but not quite. We were up against a
> voting machine it seems so its pretty amazing we even got so far.
>
> I am a bit disappointed but it will pass shortly. However there have
> been three really good things that came out of it:
> * while Aco and I sold the idea of booki at Transmediale we met an awful
> amount of people that were amazed by it. Actually, everyone we
> demonstrated booki to was blown away. I'm really not exaggerating - I
> dont think I presented it to anyone (and I must have talked to about 150
> people) that wasnt totally into it once they understood it. That is
> AMAZING and extremely encouraging.
>
> * The PR from the award will be good for us, and I think Drumbeat will
> illuminate Booki and FM on their website when they push the announcement
> of the award on their to-be-released new website.
>
> * It was astonishing how much support came back when I did the calls out
> for help. Pretty amazing. The comments in the Drumbeat project pages
> about booki were fantastic and I received a lot of email and messages
> from a wide spectrum of people that love FM and booki. It might sound
> gushy, but that has been pretty humbling.
>
> so, while we didnt get the award we did come out with more than what we
> came with. Thats pretty cool I rekin.
>
>
>
> adam


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