• Video Games as hypertext
• Hypertext Narrative is not the same as Interactive Narrative
• Games are not about story telling eg. Tetris
• You cannot win a story
• No consecutiveness
• Link to what is required to understand argument
• Family trees- hierarchical
• ‘Intertwingled’
• Keyboard- layout to slow down typists
• Unchanged for 140-150 years
• Hyper textual mode of reading- jump around, read other things mid-essay etc
• Hypertext is cinematic
• Nodes= film shots
• Meaning is outside the shot, it is relational
• All parts and relations between the parts
• Long Tail
• Excluding content that you are not interested in eg. Facebook feed
• How taste cultures form
• Determined by markers of your identity + self driven stuff eg lifestyle choices
• How clusters form in networks
• Ways around recommendation hierarchies
• Democratization of tastes
• Power to make judgements
• Equal access?
• Facebook driven by advertising recommendations, selling ad spaces
• Facebook= ‘social media disaster’
• Different from Amazon
• Page rank on Google- how many links come into your content
• Important to link to each others’ content
• Scale-free networks do not have centre eg. Internet
• Appears to be built randomly, but has a structure

I find the 80/20 rule in the Barabasi reading The 80/20 Rule somewhat confusing but also interesting.. If it is indeed accurate.

I gather that this is ‘Murphy’s Law’ so is not a set in stone law, however I find it hard to believe that in a business the majority of the time only 20% of employees will be making most of the profits.

I can imagine that 80% of links on the web point to only 15% of webpages as most links would point to Google, Facebook, perhaps Twitter or news sites too. There are so many webpages out there that it would be easy to figure out the most visited, but so much harder to figure out the least visited.

I am not completely sure if the above ^ has strayed completely away from the context of the reading as I really struggled to understand it and will be asking a lot of questions in my tutorial.. Particularly about the opening story regarding laws and economics.

From this week’s un-lecture, I really liked the idea brought up that authors can never control interpretation and the perfect example of this is the bible.

Ask one person and they will tell you the Bible is a work of fiction, ask another and they will base their morals and values around what is inside it. This is difference in interpretation on an enormous scale.

An author can have an intention of what they want a story to be about, but there is no way of stopping people’s demographics, upbringing, friends and family from influencing their interpretation of it.

Perhaps the reason one person may love a book while another can hate it could be because of how we interpret said book. Perhaps it is just to do with personal taste. Perhaps the two are related.

• Remarkable animals vs. choose your own adventure
• You can create one hundred thousand billion poems from a mixture of 10 sonnets
• Documentary= statements about reality, alternative representation
• Documentary can be created through poetry
• Interactive documentary is less fixed/concrete
• Emergent
• Stories about the world not stories about A world (documentary)
• Doco is a genre but within docos there are genres
• Britannica will be dead, Wikipedia will not in near future
• Authors can never control interpretation eg. the Bible
• Encoding and decoding stories

It is a well-known fact that yoga has many benefits both for one’s physical and mental health, so there are no surprises that it is the perfect activity for students.

Spending so much time cramped over a laptop both at a desk during uni time, and in bed watching TV shows at night really does take its toll on the body and I seriously cannot think of a more enjoyable way to balance this out than to go to a yoga class. The new blood flow that you gift to your body during a yoga practice, from your fingers to your toes, can either clear the body of the tension held throughout the day, or perhaps prepares the body for a new day.

Starting the day with a yoga class is also a great way to fill yourself with energy for the day to come, so drop that Red Bull and hit the studio instead.

In terms of benefits for your physical being, yoga, particularly a dynamic Vinyasa flow class, is a fantastic way to build upper body strength and also to tone the muscles. Forget squats; try a powerful chair pose instead!  Yoga also has benefits for the cardiovascular system, as during a class you tap into your breathing and learn to control it so that it flows with your movement. Summer is coming and I know that a lot of girls go on diets or fitness fads to try and get “bikini ready”, but I can honestly tell you that by heading along to a couple of yoga classes a week alongside a healthy diet- which you do learn a lot about being surrounded by like-minded people, cannot be beaten. Everyone loves to share recipes for healthy treats and new exciting brands to check out for example Pressed Juices and Rawsome Organic chocolate who joined us on our Open Day.

In terms of mental benefits, yoga helps you to keep focused and set intentions. It especially helps you to block out the information you don’t need so you can focus on the task at hand.

On top of all this, and I know this sounds CRAZY, going to a hot yoga class with a hangover is actually one of the best cures I can think of. Drinking a ridiculous amount of water and then sweating out all the bad stuff makes you feel like a new person afterwards. You are sure to leave the class feeling detoxed and refreshed.

To read more about the benefits of yoga, feel free to visit the Kula Yoga Studio Blog- http://kulayoga.com.au/blog/