Friday, October 14, 2011
Inanimate Alice and the Future of Storytelling
One of my favorite sites for new media writing and storytelling, especially the creepy fiction variety, is Dreaming Methods, which hosts a wide variety of stories that use new media tools for building interactive fiction pieces. Today's look at the site took me to a big project, a digital novel called Inanimate Alice, which appears to be even more interactive and ambitious than previous projects on the DM site. The story is episodic, apparently, developing over time as young Alice develops into a game designer and animator. It's supposed to run over various platforms, smart phones and the like, as well as the computer, using Flash animation. I checked out the first episode, set in China, and it's got some promising interactive opportunities. I've ordered an education pack to see how it turns out and what they are recommending for its use in the classroom.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
New Tricks Online--Scribd and Issuu
We tried last year to present the DSU magazine, New Tricks, in an online, smart-phone friendly format. Here's the result on Scribd, which works okay . . .
New Tricks 2010
and Issuu, which leaves something to be desired. I think, with a little reworking the original, that it will be okay.
New Tricks 2010
and Issuu, which leaves something to be desired. I think, with a little reworking the original, that it will be okay.
We're Midwesterners. No Tweeting!
A report from 9 Clouds indicates that not many of us are Tweeting. To be exact, about .35%. That's POINT 35 percent. Not 35.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Social Media and Authors
From the article Social Media for Authors, in the latest issue of Poets and Writers:
When I work on a publicity campaign, I view my objective as twofold: to persuade someone to buy the author’s book—as opposed to all the other books competing for attention—and, more essentially, to speed up that sale and persuade her to do it now. In order to achieve this, an author needs that ever-elusive buzz. But what exactly is buzz, where does it come from, and how do you get it?The article, by Lauren Cerand, describes her gradual move to using social media to promote literary work.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Cell Phones and Researchers
This video, from the Wall Street Journal, suggests how the data from smart and cell phone usage is being used by researchers to explore human behavior. Not just for commercial interests, the research explores new ways of examining how human beings interact and move. The illustrations from various sources visually demonstrate how the collected data tells us something about our moods, movements, and interaction.
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