Offline Mechanical Steampunkers' Blog

Step 4 Using the offline blog

Encourage passersby to come and type whatever they like, leave messages for friends, be creative or whatever.

This event - the January Reshuffle in Glasgow - attracts a lot of families, cos of being free, so there were loads of preliterate kids who just typed randomly. I had to urge people to hit the keys much harder as they were not used to the sheer effort involved. The next outing of the offline blog will be at the Scottish maker fair: http://mcmadsat.blogspot.com/

Some of it was totally random, some selfconsciously posing and other bits were serendipitously fun. I particularly like the very end

Afterwards, I took digital images (1 example given here) of the whole lot of blogging and uploaded them to my own online blog http://greensteampunk.blogspot.com/. I also transcribed the blog's text, which now follows:

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