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Jun 05 2008

Handwriting on the wall

Posted by Christine Cavalier in Main Page

In response to Spin’s note here.

Tags: by hand, handwriting, meme, sci-fi, script, spin

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8 Responses to “Handwriting on the wall”

Mari says:

5 June 2008 at 8:41 pm

What a neat idea!!
Post script: Blogging by hand at melanie mcbride online says:

6 June 2008 at 7:12 pm

[...] meme. It all started with his attempt at a handwritten blog post. His experiment was followed up by Christine Cavalier’s, Goldie Katsu’s and now … mine. In each case, we’ve raised some questions about [...]
melmcbride says:

7 June 2008 at 2:03 am

I envy your neat handrwriting!
PurpleCar says:

7 June 2008 at 5:52 pm

Hi Mari! Did you 'scratchblog' yet? We have a 'scratchblogging' tag on flickr. I'm going to post mine up soon.

Mel, MY handwriting is neat? Wow. Thanks! Next post I'm going to try to sit at a proper desk and use proper posture like the nuns taught me.
n8k99 says:

5 July 2008 at 10:34 am

i think that this is indeeed searchable and catalogable by Goolge or other search engines. There is a technology called OCR- optical Character Recognition that is pretty advanced and is used to convert items such as this into text files.
PurpleCar says:

5 July 2008 at 10:43 am

I know about OCR but I doubt that Google treats the scratchblogging as anything other than an image at this point. Plus, I'd love to see any OCR program that can decipher my handwriting to over a 50% accuracy rate!
Goldie's Gabs: Untitled Handwritten Post says:

9 September 2008 at 3:44 pm

[...] Handwritten Post Ok, Eric started this meme, and PurpleCar got me thinking, so it is time for me to join in.What is this meme? Well since I can’t just link it [...]
Goldie’s Gabs » Blog Archive » Untitled Handwritten Post says:

1 March 2009 at 12:41 pm

[...] Eric started this meme, and PurpleCar got me thinking, so it is time for me to join [...]