STEPHEN FRY

This is apparently not the place we discuss when to let Stephen know either, even though this is where we made it. I have to follow all of you on Twitter and read all you say to know when. That's not possible for me.

Stephen's message is not what we're discussing. It's how he was told.

So I'll ask again, is this how you will all go about it in the future?

Even though I could not join in as I do not possess the gadgetry to make audio- and soundbites (or whatever they are called ) I am so very very happy for you all! What lovely message from Stephen! (Even I feel touched although it does not concern me) You all deserve it - as he deserves every pixel of that video!!!

PS But it would be nice if projects did not require so much "equipment", so that hopeless creatures like me did not have to miss out...

Aww, thanks Gerti. And I agree the next project should be something that allows greater involvement from everyone. I am still eyeing up that eBook idea of GirlGatsby, as it looks like it would let everyone do whatever they would like.

Pieter, there was no "behind the scenes" activity going on. Everything was plainly visible to anyone on Twitter and/or Buzz. I suppose I or someone could have come over and posted on this thread as well yesterday morning, but do Fluffettes really check this thread more frequently than they check their Twitter page? There was no secret activity or exclusionary tactics going on.

Which brings me to the point where I suppose I should apologize for my Twitter behavior yesterday. It just seems to me that every time Fluffettes are happy and celebrating something two or three Fluffettes pop up with sad faces saying that they were somehow excluded. This always makes me feel less happy and it makes me feel that I was somehow wrong to be so public in my celebrations. I suppose last night I was just tired of being made to feel guilty about being involved in the activities, and that it was somehow wrong or exclusionary. Fluffettes, I think we all try to use the devices available to us to best involve everyone. I have, several times, nudged people on Twitter about activities I thought they would be interested in, in an effort to make this forum accessible and inclusive of everyone. It hurts me when people say we have left them out, and it taints my pleasure at whatever it is we have accomplished as a group. I am aware that the problem may be more mine than anyone else's here, so I'm sorry for taking up so much of the thread's space on this. Sorry. x

hughsbeautiful said:
Of course I'm also happy that Stephen watched the video, but I would like to have been a part of the "party", that it so apparently was, to have told him about it.
In the future projects would it be possible to make that a joint effort as well? So that I don't have to come on twitter and get told "oh btw we've told Stephen ect.", resulting in me feeling rather left out of this "we".

Sorry, it was my fault. I let loose the link on him a bit early on Google Buzz, and the flood started on another buzz. Completely unplanned. Sorry you feel left out

Believe me, though, it wasn't done with any malicious intent! (Hell's bells, I didn't even know he saw it until I saw the masses of tweets)

Also, the reality is that I saw it as an opportunity before May that he was on the computer, on the internet, and not writing, so I posted the link.

For the rest of you guys, don't go jumping to one or the other's defense, it'll only exacerbate the situation. This isn't how we will plan for things in the future - like I said, I saw it as a window of opportunity, and I took it. I will take any blame for any ill-feelings from this.

George is right. I think the same.

Besides, isn't the whole point of having a united name like Fluffettes so that nobody feels left out?

The message from Stephen was to the Fluffettes, and that means every single one of us, it wasn't sent individually to each person, because he knows we all worked as a team and thats how he wanted to thank us. I'm personally just quite happy that he saw the video and put together a lovely paragraph about how much it made him happy. I didn't twitter Stephen about the video, because I was at college - but I know I'm included in his warm wishes because I'm a fluffette. I don't think we can expect everyone to be around at exactly the same time, because life never works that way. I'm sorry you felt you were left out hughsbeautiful, but when the oppertunity to contact a man as busy as Stephen is arises, you really can't afford to miss it.

I'm not even sure how to create a system for alerting Stephen about finished projects. Twitter/Buzz seems the best way - but then we have the issue of who does it, and at what time. We did mass tweet him about the birthday book...but does it really matter whose tweet gets through to him? Just aslong as somebody's does..

..Oh lor look, I've written an essay. Why do I ramble so much?

We'll try to make the next project less technologically discriminating and include not only a due date, but a STEPHEN SPAMMO KABLAMMO date.

Any idears for this August 24th?