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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The insurgency spreads

Hits for "typewriter insurgency" on Google on May 1, 2012: 0
On May 8, 2012: 270


It's been facebooked, googleplussed, and even given a few tweets (thanks, Rino).


Here are 2 great creative adaptations of the manifesto:


Magic Margin 
No, I don't want your credit card


-- and a kindred feeling at Conversations With My Id.


I haven't had the opportunity yet to spread the word in the most appropriate way -- through typed statements on paper -- but am looking forward to it.


Additional links, added after this post was first published:


The manifesto Anglicized
The manifesto adapted to Portuguese
A logo for the insurgency


Hits for "typewriter insurgency" on May 20, 2012: 2290
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5 comments:

  1. wordrebelMay 9, 2012 at 12:16 AM

    BRAVO!! I've printed a few out on 8 1/2x11 sheets of sticker paper and have been plastering them where I can...there isn't a Starbucks in the area without one! ;u)

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  2. Bill MMay 9, 2012 at 4:38 AM

    I keep getting weird looks and sometimes questions about the copy I have on my office wall at work. Then when those who have peaked around the corner and notice the Royal Signet I get even stranger looks from those who really want to ask and do not ask why I have a "..is that blue thing on the shelf a typewriter?"

    I really should find a working Oliver for work.

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  3. Richard PMay 9, 2012 at 7:41 AM

    I was typing comments on student papers on an Olympia at a coffeehouse a couple of weeks ago. I got some wide-eyed stares, and the owner of the coffeehouse came over to chat about how her mom, a secretary, could type lightning fast on a manual typewriter. She even wanted to take a picture. Then when I went to pay my bill, the girl at the register said, "So what's with the typewriter?" -- "I like using it for certain jobs," I said. -- "Non-editable jobs?" she muttered.

    My point is that something as anti-paradigmatic as public typing really gets noticed. (The average American certainly hasn't heard of "the typewriter renaissance" and doesn't know that it's a "hipster" thing.) Sometimes the attention is very positive, sometimes people are really disturbed by the sight. It's almost like an act of civil disobedience.

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  4. notagainMay 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM

    I'm enjoying this. I'll have to keep some text ready to transcribe, appropriate for locations/situations (e.g. the more "revolutionary" language is probably not good for an airport or airplane, where they are more tetchy). My experiences reflect your own - either big grins or scowls, or willfully ignoring me.

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  5. maschinengeschriebenMay 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM

    I just hope I'll never hear "You are part of the typewriter insurgency and a traitor. Take him away!"

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