A Blog Novel

Rohit Gupta, a Bombay-based writer, who also reads this blog, is writing a blog-novel. He has come up with an innovative way to promote it — by letting readers choose quotes from his text to “own” — by choosing a quote and linking to his blog-novel from it, he will in return link back to your blog from that quote in his novel. It’s similar to my earlier GoMeme experiments, except in this case his novel is the meme that is spreading via a cooperative linking incentive.

Good idea, Rohit! I choose this quote from your novel:

The other article, an interesting one, is a 2000-word piece on the history of mathematical heretics known as the Circlesquarers, and the transcendental nature of the number Π.

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10 Responses to A Blog Novel

  1. Blognovel: Le Spirale Fantastique

    I got an email from Rohit Gupta from Bombay, who is writing a “blog novel” and wants to participate in a kind of link exchange. I generally don’t participate or encourage link exchanges, because of their use by spammers. However…

  2. Blognovel: Le Spirale Fantastique

    I got an email from Rohit Gupta from Bombay, who is writing a “blog novel” and wants to participate in a kind of link exchange. I generally don’t participate or encourage link exchanges, because of their use by spammers. However…

  3. Blognovel: Le Spirale Fantastique

    I got an email from Rohit Gupta from Bombay, who is writing a “blog novel” and wants to participate in a kind of link exchange. I generally don’t participate or encourage link exchanges, because of their use by spammers. However…

  4. Tatler says:

    rohit gupta’s blog novel

    :: Rohit Gupta, a Bombay-based writer, is writing a blog novel with an interesting twist. Bloggers are invited to participate in a gift-exchange system. Gupta is

  5. Tatler says:

    rohit gupta’s blog novel

  6. Tatler says:

    rohit gupta’s blog novel

    :: Rohit Gupta, a Bombay-based writer, is writing a blog novel with an interesting twist. Bloggers are invited to participate in a gift-exchange system. Gupta is

  7. Tatler says:

    rohit gupta’s blog novel

    :: Rohit Gupta, a Bombay-based writer, is writing a blog novel with an interesting twist. Bloggers are invited to participate in a gift-exchange system. Gupta is

  8. Samantha says:

    Yep

    Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
    teach him to use the Net and he won’t bother you for weeks.

  9. Adam says:

    What a great idea, I would also be keen to do that with my own blog novel, drop me an email if you would like to do that and I will link you up. innovative thinking Rohit great job, oh look a bandwagon can I jump on? hehe

  10. Jason Davis says:

    Link kexchange idea sounds like a winner.
    I’m a published author switching the autonomy of the web for novel #2.
    See it at http://www.curlygibson.com
    Have a read and tell me if you want to swap a permanent link.
    Cheers
    JD