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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:11:02 +0000

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By: ksfkay

ksfkay — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:26:00 +0000

so, why would they want to use an iPhone here in this book? It seems that all you need or want is the use of a touch screen. If an important call came in,, i’d have to rip the book in half, just to get back to the phone.

By: Todd Essig

Todd Essig — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:14:59 +0000

… and I do love it, and can’t wait to see what your creativity weaves from the “little funding” you’ve found–if only it were more. I actually think you, or someone–I hope its you–, will succeed and produce a more engaging narrative type. While I anticipate finding it thrilling, I also feel a loss as our narratives (the roots of self?) get evermore embedded in technological interactions and severed from old-fashioned imagination and traditional cultural practices. I was lucky enough to have Jerome Bruner as a mentor in grad school when he was doing all his narrative work. Instead of “actual minds, possible worlds,” (the title of his mid-80s book), we just may end up with “possible minds, actual worlds;” what you’re doing is both totally cool and kind of scary.

But don’t the anxieties of people like me get in your way! Your job is to build it, mine to worry about what you’re building!!

By: Stephen C. Webster

Stephen C. Webster — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:52:54 +0000

Hard, but not impossible. I’d explain, but it would involve giving away something that I’m working on. ;O)

By: peteressenberger

peteressenberger — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:10:33 +0000

I like this app.. it’s cool..but books outdated…hahaha..your joking right?

Old and unchanged for years maybe..Or maybe the user experience of READING a book is hard if not impossible to improve upon.

Basicly this is not a book!

By: Stephen C. Webster

Stephen C. Webster — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:34:27 +0000

Innovation to its presentation, I meant to say.

By: Stephen C. Webster

Stephen C. Webster — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:33:09 +0000

Of course they’re cool, albeit outdated. How long has the “book” existed without innovation? Not a knock, but I think we of the tech-savvy graft are capable of producing a more engaging narrative type that will fundamentally change the way people perceive fiction.

I’m interested in blending media-types to tell a multilayered, interactive story that requires the reader to become a participant, or at least believe they are somehow personally connected to imaginary events. In short, that’s what I’m working on in my spare time with what little funding I’ve secured.

As I researched work others have done to forward interactive storytelling theories, I came across this video and thought my True/Slant friends would love it … Wet blanket and all. :O)

By: Todd Essig

Todd Essig — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:52:10 +0000

Hhmmm … don’t mean to be a wet-blanket, but aren’t books and the stories they house already pretty cool? I’m not so sure it’s such a great idea to move our narrative interactions from imagination to our fingers. I’m sure it’ll catch-on, and I’m looking forward to the yield from your off-hours writing, but I smell lost stories as well as lots of cool moments.

By: Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

Lisa Takeuchi Cullen — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:46:16 +0000

WOW. That’s so cool. Could be a good reading tool, too, right? How’s it possible this app and product isn’t already available?

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