personalization

Breathe is a ghost story. It is a ghost story about a young woman, Flo, who likes to talk to ghosts. Or maybe it’s the ghosts who like to talk to her.

Full of psychological suspense and haunting interruptions, Breathe is a story for anyone who wants to know what it’s like to read a personalised book and feel a chill when they see their digital world and their real world combine.

Intimate and uncanny, Breathe will leave you checking over your shoulder and looking at your phone and your room in a way you never have before.

(Source: Taken from the about page)

@everyword is a Twitter bot that tweeted every word in the English language, in alphabetical order, one at a time, every half hour. <@everyword started its task in late 2007 and completed it in 2014. Along the way, it picked up over 100,000 followers and inspired dozens of parodies and imitations. The project, initially inspired by John F. Simon's Every Icon, was an exercise in the potential synergies of social media and experimental writing techniques extending over time: What happens when single words, invested with their own lexical context, are juxtaposed with ever-changing, personalized Twitter feeds? How does social media as a channel shape and afford the presentation of writing?