we tell stories innovative storytelling through the web by worldfamous authors from the hon brothers. iftfs future now barabasi on mobiles as social dashboards alberto lazlo barabasi one of the fathers of social network analysis gave a fascinating paper abstract pdf on time and motion in mobile communication in which he described a project that uses large datasets of mobile phone subscribers to...
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puffin books announced the launch of the shadow war an alternate reality game set in the bond universe. the game was designed by six to start and written by charlie higson to create a parallel experience for higsons newest young bond novel by royal command. the series is intended for 914 year old children and has sold over threequarters of a million copies in the uk alone. over 35000 fans of th...
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6 pieces of new media fiction each beginning with a line from one of 6 classic novels i.e. alice in wonderland. via 3qd my fave i think is the google mapsbased the 21 steps below but that may say more about my interest in google maps as an avant garde medium than the story itself which is imho overly explanatory about new media i.e. defining what a memory stick is as if people dont know. stil...
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blogging is the signature written form of our age indeed is arguably the most widespread and popular form of published words that has ever existed. bracketing the arguments about noise to signal ratios self indulgence and wild proliferation blogging is now a fact of the written word as much as letters novels newspapers and emails.a in part 1 i argued that blogging was a publishable activity and th...
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photo of kim plowright speaking at open tech 2008 shared by oreilly gmt. i went to open tech 2008 on saturday. open tech describes itself as an informal low cost oneday conference on technology society and lowcarbon living featuring open source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at at which anyone can have a go surely if youre wondering about its heritage before open tech 2...
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mark merino over at writer response theory posts a fabulous table matching up a work of electronic literature to each popular web 2.0 tool. ive stolen the whole thing its so useful i hope mark doesnt mind yell at me if you do mark. mark suggests using these creative works of fiction and poetry to enrich a course where students learn about social technologies and web 2.0 you wouldnat think of teac...
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httpb2e.nitle.orgindex.php20080618st lawrence university hosts nitle multiconversations during the final day of multimedia narrative at st. lawrence university touched on a series of topics and resources including digital storytelling ohio state storycircles penguin storytelling with google maps uh evaluating digital stories two presentations california educators simmons college voice...
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last week i was high up in the mountains of vail colorado at a brainstorming retreat organized by the charter school growth fund. i was very flattered to be asked to join and found myself surrounded by some big thinkersheavy hitters in the education space. the idea in a nutshell was that public education is failing students or at least large numbers of students who dont even complete high school...
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open tech 2008 is an informal low cost oneday conference on technology society and lowcarbon living featuring open source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at. the schedule includes the very lovely kim plowright talking about art history with matt webb which will be worth the price of admission on its own. other things not to miss include gavin starks talking about amee s...
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berkeley calif. the weeklong training at uc berkeley in multimedia has now moved to a new phase. after getting basic background on audio video and photographic equipment we went out into the field on our groups assignment. my group team gecko went to visit professor robert full to learn about the work hes done in biomechanics. fulls lab discovered the properties of geckos feet that allow the anim...
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penguin books uk is doing such a terrific job with the web. their we tell stories project was novel and interesting and made me actually buy a book no joke. their blog is excellent too. for instance this post about the new editions of the james bond books is mediarich and full of nerdy detail a far cry from a press release. and check out this presentation on interesting typography in book...
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recently came across three similar blog postings about storytelling in marketing and thought i would pretend the authors were having a conversation. thus sort of a madeup story with these bloggers as characters. mclellan creative no individual blogger identified begins the conversation by asking when was the last time you were drawn into a white paper by language that compelled you to read more h...
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make blog open gps tracker a low cost simple gps tracker pachube connecting environments patching the planet a service that enables people to tag and share real time environmental data from objects devices and spaces around the world. the key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments both physical and virtual. xkcd a webcomic of romance sarcasm math and language by randall...
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penguins promoting some exploration of the concept of book in their we tell stories series where six authors have contributed new works each of which explores some aspect of online storytelling sometimes quite distinct from more traditional printed books. not all of these are equally successful i thought the idea of the 21 steps was better than the execution. my favorite of these is probably hard...
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by eden spodek ali barrett simon beals devon ross and jory goudge had their profiles deleted on facebook this week. why they are all fictional characters created by screenwriter and executive producer jill golick who presented story2oh evolving tv storytelling to social networks at casecamp toronto 7. several casecamp attendees were friended by ali barrrett or simon beals prior to the event. ...
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una descabellada historia de misterio cuya lectura te lleva a travas de un viaje por londres y edimburgo en google maps una adolescente a quien sus padres alejan de su carculo social llevandola a vivir a otra ciudad y que una vez instalada temporalmente en la habitacian de una chica llamada mary jane consigue comunicarse con sus amigos de toda la vida a travas de un nuevo correo electranico de un ...
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introduction another story the former general has been released as part of penguinstss current arg we tell stories. this story and the website it comes from is all part of an arg from two of the key people dan and adrian hon behind perplex city pxc. so expect misinformation deliberate errors and stenography. im not playing the game sadly just too busy with other things at the moment so im inter...
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click here for mohsin hamids story the former general in his labyrinth. when mohsin was here at vassar the other day he was telling my students that what his novel meantwhat could be concluded as happening in its final pages for instancewould very much depend on what the reader brought to the scene. your assumptions your biases your suspicions shaped the meaning of whatever was on the page. and ...
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adrians got a great post on his blog about some of the process we went through creating the last story in the current we tell stories series the former general in his labyrinth i love all the stories in we tell stories but i do have favourites. back when we were planning the six week schedule for the stories we decided to structure it like an album start with a bang and end with a bang. the first...
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hard times this weeks oddly cool charts are provided by matt mason and nicholas feldon for we tell stories. in a beautifully presented but sometimes confusing set of grids they argue that life today is full of many kinds of problems but that theres a great possibility for as many kinds of solutions. via snarkmarket......
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we tell stories hard times by matt mason nicholas felton as part of penguins we tell stories series this update of dickens hard times is a pretty cool little tour of our current state of the stats by matt mason author of the pirates dilemma. the above is from the page ideas are traveling faster. admittedly i find the graphics a little hard to follow. maybe im too old. anyhow take it a tour its w...
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a famosa e sempre charmosa penguin esta trazendo para o ambiente digital 6 estarias de 6 autores por 6 semanas numa sarie especial chamada we tell stories. ao invas do puro e simples texto as estarias sao contadas de um jeito mais interativo. uma delas a the 21 steps a contada atravas do google maps. para conferir as 6 o clique a aqui.......
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