Jessica Sanner finds Rob Bryanton. His book website, put together in flash, is a good example of hypermedia concepts we’ll be exploring in New Media 2.
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Inform 7 Demo
October 1, 2008 – 11:02 pm
This morning I demo’ed two short works of IF: Nine Points and The Legend of Grammy’s Apple. Both serve as demonstrations and tutorials of how to play and interact with works of interactive fiction (text adventures.) For a more detailed explanation of playing IF, read this useful overview.
After that, we discussed the importance of creating [...]
SnapPages
September 13, 2008 – 11:30 am
This is something to look into: SnapPages.
I don’t know a lot about webpage creation tools, such as SnapPages and the product from Google, but it’s well worth the time to play with the software. That’s what we do: play, explore, and wonder at the usefulness.
SnapPages™ provides a suit of tools that make creating your [...]
Jess on Harold and PictoChat
September 9, 2008 – 7:03 pm
Jess has found an interesting relationship between Harold and PictoChat:
Today in class we discussed the story Harold and the Purple Crayon. I couldn’t help but make a fairly obvious comparison to the PictoChat Battle Stage in Super Smash Brothers Brawl for the Wii. For those who have yet to play the game the PictoChat [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
More Apps for Study
April 17, 2008 – 11:08 pm
Check out these apps and companies:
Alertthingy
Twhirl
Crowdvine
CogHead
Spinscape
Jive
Doninger, Free Speech, and Borders
March 5, 2008 – 9:57 am
Reportage from the Second Curcuit Court of Appeals is coming in on the Avery Doninger case, an item often in the post space here. This case is about relationships. These relationships should not be overcomplicated.
It calls for a rethinking by school administrators of their role in public discourse. It’s not about whether [...]
Security and Live Journal
February 19, 2008 – 7:32 pm
Beautifuld has a post on security, which opens ideas I’d like to explore further. But why should I have to create a LJ account to do this?
That’s another view of security: a lock down, of sorts. What do you say, B. Let me in!
System Narratives
February 3, 2008 – 8:25 pm
In this course we will be talking a lot about systems and what they mean. For example, on this day I took some time to work on some photos. Now that I can again work in the Photoshop landscape, the image editor I’m most comfortable with, I can get back to the business [...]
Spazeboy’s Video Corner
September 9, 2007 – 9:09 pm
Beau’s Spazeboy’s Guide to Political Video Blogging is a wonderful and concise read. Very practical. But I wonder if the guide will require a section on being roughed up or rushed by aggressive officials.
Harold, Narrative, and Variables
September 9, 2007 – 6:02 pm
On Wednesday we broke Harold down into its narrative parts, which we could follow from the slides into which we’d cut the book, moving the “pages of the book” to Powerpoint slides, illustrating Harold as he exists in one kind of material, paper, to another, digital.
Digital is another kind of clay.
Anyway, Harold, as we know, [...]