The 1st drafts of the IF projects are available to play online.
Check some of them out and blog about your impressions.
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Play the IF 1st Drafts Online
November 13, 2008 – 1:51 pm
Prepping for Digital Storytelling
November 3, 2008 – 9:54 am
We are starting our next project in digital storytelling today.
Here are links to tutorials for the software you might be using:
Windows Movie Maker (comes free on all Windows machines).
Another free download you might want to try is Photo Story 3 for Windows.
On the Macbooks, there is iMovie 08.
Lastly here is a site with links to [...]
Knight News Challenge
October 20, 2008 – 11:07 pm
From the Knight News Challenge
We’re giving away around $5 million in 2009 for the development and distribution of neighborhood and community-focused projects, services, and programs.
If you have a great idea that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support local conversations [...]
The IF Project - Fall 2008
October 13, 2008 – 8:40 am
Here is the Interactive Fiction Project Assignment and requirements for this semester:
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Microsoft and Generation Y
September 14, 2008 – 11:06 am
Dan Kimerling of TechCrunch has some interesting and arguable ideas on the relationship between Microsoft and future power users. He writes
Another example of Microsoft’s inability to understand younger users, comes in what I can only call their software design philosophy, which I can summarize as “Throw in More Features”. Yet, that seems antithetical to [...]
Andrade on Vannevar Bush
September 9, 2008 – 6:58 pm
David Andrade has a wonderful post on Vannevar Bush:
Hopefully Final Crisis will be as filled with revelations and jaw dropping moments as this piece was. Off the top of my head I related what Vannevar was predicting over 50 years ago to at least five different modern devices of media. For starters, we have the [...]
Vannevar Bush Goes Green
September 9, 2008 – 1:44 pm
Mashable brings us news of Wikia Green that hopes to build
the best resource for citizens of the Earth to learn about the environment and how to live a more sustainable life.
In light of our intro discussion of the memex, how might this be another example of knowledge collection and search? Here’s from the identity [...]
Web 2.0 Impacts
September 6, 2008 – 10:55 am
Trends are, we think, important to follow, especially when trends noticeably impact things. This from ReadWriteWeb
No matter which department you’re in, Web 2.0 technologies have had an impact. If you’ve been ignoring their prevalence and adoption, you’re at risk of falling behind in your career and your business is at risk of losing ground [...]
The Everywhere Digital
September 4, 2008 – 7:43 pm
Here’s an interesting entry from Nat Torkington of O’reilly on the subject of ubiquitous computing. He draws from an interview with William Gibson, focusing on this quote:
One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that [...]
Michael Wesch - from The Chronicle
June 28, 2008 – 9:51 am
Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, set out to study the culture of YouTube users, and he ended up becoming a video star in the process. He and his students have been lovingly documenting how people are using their Web cams to express themselves, and his short videos about [...]
Katie on Hyperwords
April 24, 2008 – 9:16 am
Katie has put up a post on hyperwords, an extension of browser technology. She’s obviously been doing research on Ted Nelson.
I used Hyperwords extensively in the past but found that the app was a little too aggressive on the page. Anyone else try it?
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More Apps for Study
April 17, 2008 – 11:08 pm
Check out these apps and companies:
Alertthingy
Twhirl
Crowdvine
CogHead
Spinscape
Jive
Growing Up Online
April 16, 2008 – 8:57 am
For our (future) discussions regarding social networking, Frontline has a great piece on Growing Up Online: Just How Radically is the Internet Transforming Childhood?
Great journal/blogging ideas here for discussion. You can watch the complete program online too. Take the time to check this out.
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IF Code from Class 03/27
March 28, 2008 – 5:27 pm
I have posted the code from the collaborative story “The Good, The Bad, and The Lolli” done in class. I took the liberty of dressing it up quite a bit. There are minimal interactions but the map, locations, and characters are all there (I think there was a piano player but I cannot remember the [...]