The Adventures Of Dave and Dan

We picked up some DVDs yesterday, and last night watched Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure, which is a follow-up of sorts to Are You Dave Gorman? the Edinburgh show/TV series in which Dave Gorman set out to find a number of people with the same name as him.

Googlewhack is a slightly different proposition, involving him meeting people who run sites that result from Googlewhack Google searches, having them find two more Googlewhacks and then following up to try and meet the owners of the sites, etc etc. His aim was an unbroken chain of ten Googlewhacks.

Somewhere between Are you... and the new show, Gorman has adapted a rather angrier style, with quite a lot of the show crossing over the line between manic and aggressive, but it's still funny, and very cleverly presented - the use of slides to illustrate the points along the way remains from the earlier show.

Concurrently, I'm reading Join Me, Danny Wallace's book about the Join Me campaign he started a few years ago. I remember when everyone was emailing round about what this strange thing could be all about at the time. The point, such that there was one, is that he set out to get 100 people to Join Him. Join him in what? Well, in being joined, basically.

The connection is that Wallace and Gorman used to be flat mates, and Wallace was the person who went on Gorman's original challenge with him.

The two together have put me in an odd frame of mind - I do find myself wanting to be set a challenge of some description, though what it would be I wouldn't like to say.

Posted on November 22, 2004 07:59 AM

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