Check out The Big Word Project.
“The Big Word Project has been set up by Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe, two Masters students from Northern Ireland, who are exploring what different words mean to different people. The project allows you to purchase a word from our list to represent your site. Your site will then represent this word in our list and when people click on it, they will be taken to your site. The project is aimed at changing definitions and creating a new tapestry of words, meaning altogether different things. We’re selling words for $1 per letter. Find it, click it, buy it
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- Can you guess what word I bought?
- Here’s my idea… Have you ever been to Pike Place Market in Seattle? On the floor of the market, there are tiles with people’s names on them. They sold for a few dollars each many years ago, and there are thousands of these tiles. What if a charity like the American Cancer Society sold a wall of ”big words,” or sponsorships / naming rights for a virtual space? That could be a cool fundraiser.
- If you know of an example in which something like this is already out there, lemme know!
