Even in very easy to understand stories there are gaps (how did the character get from their home to the hotel?), but gaps are fundamental. One measure of how sophisticated a work is simply in how l...Read More
Ideally you would like to have both options, wouldn't you? One for die hard collectors, the other for those that just enjoy access and to have the stuff 'follow' you around on your devices (the clou...Read More
Abby with notes from unsymposium 0.2 , picking up that intent (and context) is no guarantee of anything, and that hypertext (and I'd add other poststructural ways of writing) willing embraces this....Read More
The simple answer is that Kindle is a very closed platform, there is no app store for kindle, it is in that sense a one trick pony. The better answer though is that by tying it to iOS (I'd expect an...Read More
The simple answer is that Kindle is a very closed platform, there is no app store for kindle, it is in that sense a one trick pony. The better answer though is that by tying it to iOS (I'd expect an...Read More
The next step is to think about the significance of this, as it turns out that this is the characteristic of what are known as 'scale free networks' of which the web is one. ... Arthur has some ramb...Read More
Relevant to recent discussions here, oyster is a service that let's you subscribe for $10 a month and it works like a book library. ... It is like last.fm or spotify for books, haven't looked at it...Read More
This is science about the 'network' in general, and the 'laws' or rules described I believe apply all the way from an individual hypertextual work (including the video works you are likely to make nex...Read More
The questions that one of the Thursday classes has raised (they're an interesting set of questions by the way) are: What kind of genre is an interactive documentary? ... If, "Interactive narrative...Read More