Today begins my first book tour, starting with a trip to Canada for a presentation on the Hypertext Edition.

Speaking at:

• FITC Mobile, Toronto, September 12-14
• Bambou Design, San Francisco, September 15
• 140 | The Twitter Conference, Los Angeles, September 22-23
• Bookshop West Portal, San Francisco October 20, 2009 – BOOK PREMIERE
• The 140 Characters Conference, Los Angeles, October 27-28

Here are a few places I know I’ll be visiting, but have yet to be scheduled:

• Swarthmore College, PA
• Harvard University, MA
• New York City, NY

Want to add your city to this list?  Please contact press@140characters.com.

From the Twitter FAQ:

We like to keep it short and sweet! It also just so happens that 140 characters is the perfect length for sending status updates via text message. The standard text message length in most places is 160 characters per message. We reserve 20 characters for people’s names, and the other 140 are all yours!

See also the origin of the 160 character limit for mobile messaging.

This is a collaborative effort.  If you’ve invented a stylistic convention, feel free to share it by posting with the tag “oneforty” or by writing to us at: style@140characters.com.