Transmedia is the latest and perhaps one of the greatest advances in storytelling in a long time.
Narrowly defined it is an approach to storytelling in which the story is laid out across multiple platforms of communication. Instead of just reading a book-- the idea is that now you’re reading a book, as well as communicating with other people also reading the book, in many different ways. Instead of just the book you could all be also playing a video game together, set in the books reality with the books characters and you’re able to interact with them. Instead of the video game perhaps you’re now on a social networking website looking at the profiles of different book characters, or even a Google-maps based website set in this reality to get an idea of what this place looks like. There are tons of different ways that this transmedia idea can work; incorporating ad campaigns, mobile applications, video games, and networking sites are just the beginning. The whole idea behind the transmedia concept is to submerse the readers as wholly as possible to get them interested in worlds that can only be done through the use of different media outlets. Some people might only want the book, or others might only want the video game, or other people something else; with this concept it is up to the user to choose his or her level of interaction with this story.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Trolling a "patent troll" with ... trolls
Trolling a "patent troll" with ... trolls
Trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls, I LOVE IT.
For just 9$ you can send a troll doll to a company that trolls patents with future ideas hoping that actual technology companies come up with something similar so that they can sue them and make money; this is absolutely brilliant(both sending the troll to the trolls, and the form in which these trolls have been trolling.) i love it.
Trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls, I LOVE IT.
For just 9$ you can send a troll doll to a company that trolls patents with future ideas hoping that actual technology companies come up with something similar so that they can sue them and make money; this is absolutely brilliant(both sending the troll to the trolls, and the form in which these trolls have been trolling.) i love it.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Do dyslexics need a specially designed font?
Do dyslexics need a specially designed font?
A graphic designer with dyslexia designs a font intended to help others with dyslexia read better. A masters student writes a thesis paper on it and there are some that believe that it works as intended, however of course it has it's skeptics. What are your thoughts? Even if it only helps a couple out of the many people with dyslexia I think it's a great start.
A graphic designer with dyslexia designs a font intended to help others with dyslexia read better. A masters student writes a thesis paper on it and there are some that believe that it works as intended, however of course it has it's skeptics. What are your thoughts? Even if it only helps a couple out of the many people with dyslexia I think it's a great start.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Shoebox app turns phones into photo scanners
Shoebox app turns phones into photo scanners
This is one of the neatest apps I've seen in a while; I don't believe going as far as tossing your photos out afterward is necessary, but the idea of being able to have all of your physical photos quickly and easily digitalized is a great concept.
This is one of the neatest apps I've seen in a while; I don't believe going as far as tossing your photos out afterward is necessary, but the idea of being able to have all of your physical photos quickly and easily digitalized is a great concept.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Blackbeard's cannon salvaged from North Carolina shipwreck
Blackbeard's cannon salvaged from North Carolina shipwreck
Man I love pirates; every time I hear about stuff like in the news I'm forced to watch the Goonies.
Man I love pirates; every time I hear about stuff like in the news I'm forced to watch the Goonies.
'Tsunami' trojan hijacks Macs
'Tsunami' trojan hijacks Macs
A trojan is rewritten from a Linux-attacking trojan to a Mac-attacking trojan that hijacks a users computer to DDoS a target declared over IRC. On top of the DDoS effect it can also allow the users computer to be controlled in order for the person behind the trojan to siphon personal information from the infected user.
First Steve Jobs dies, and now malware? What are all the fanboys going to latch on to now that they can't claim their precious Macs aren't virusproof?
A trojan is rewritten from a Linux-attacking trojan to a Mac-attacking trojan that hijacks a users computer to DDoS a target declared over IRC. On top of the DDoS effect it can also allow the users computer to be controlled in order for the person behind the trojan to siphon personal information from the infected user.
First Steve Jobs dies, and now malware? What are all the fanboys going to latch on to now that they can't claim their precious Macs aren't virusproof?
Sunday, October 23, 2011
How to spot psychopaths: Speech patterns give them away
How to spot psychopaths: Speech patterns give them away
They talk about how psychopaths use uhs and ums as a way to make themselves look "more sane" and tend to talk more in the past tense than nonpsychopathic murderers do. Then they talk about using computer programs to analyze the data, and possibly start scanning social media websites; I think we all know where this is going.
If I disappear for a while, don't worry guys I'm being interrogated by the government.
No... but seriously, it seems to me like this has a chance to hit with a lot of false positives. For one, most people talk differently in person than on the computer/over the internet(less uhs and ums; usually, and some people adopt a whole new character for internet communication). For two, what are they planning on doing with these results?
They talk about how psychopaths use uhs and ums as a way to make themselves look "more sane" and tend to talk more in the past tense than nonpsychopathic murderers do. Then they talk about using computer programs to analyze the data, and possibly start scanning social media websites; I think we all know where this is going.
If I disappear for a while, don't worry guys I'm being interrogated by the government.
No... but seriously, it seems to me like this has a chance to hit with a lot of false positives. For one, most people talk differently in person than on the computer/over the internet(less uhs and ums; usually, and some people adopt a whole new character for internet communication). For two, what are they planning on doing with these results?
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