Portfolio #2

So…somehow I completely forgot about this portfolio. I’m going to childishly blame it on my preoccupation while in New Orleans…

For this portfolio, the theme seems to focus primarily on electronic writing and where writing will turn in the future. We touched on ebooks, epublishing, memes, blogging and old school text adventure games.

Depth: I [...]

Montfort, “Continuous Paper”

Players also used paper in their adventuring. Tracy Kidder noted that one Adventure player’s desk held “roughly drawn maps. They consisted of circles, inside of which were scrawled names such as Dirty Passage, Hall of Mists, Hall of the Mountain King … Webs of lines connected the circles, and each line was labeled, some with points of [...]

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore tugs at our heartstrings

“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is more than just an App or a short film. It is the future of children’s books. Although the short film was effective and provides an excellent interpretation of the intertwined relationship between authors, books and readers, the actual app provides words to accompany short strips [...]

You, my dear, have the mark of the Grimm; a look at Harry Potter and the Conclusion of The Late Age of Print

While reading Chapter 5 and the Conclusion of The Late Age of Print, I felt mixed emotions regarding not only the future of printed books but also about the extreme security measures taken to protect Harry Potter‘s secrets until the designated global release date. While I think J.K. Rowling and her publishers did an excellent job [...]

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