Category Archives: NEW MEDIA

NEW MEDIA: Methods & Madness

Posted on June 14, 2006 by Susan

It just takes so much time to learn!  I’ve just spent a good part of today changing postings over to different categories:  Went back from NONFICTION to REALITY? on personal posts and eliminated HYPERFICTION by putting those into the NEW … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Hypertext 3.0 – Categories

Posted on June 13, 2006 by Susan

Just when I realized that my category system here wasn’t working well, i.e., switching from REALTY? to NONFICTION to hold the personal posts and now deciding to reverse that move, I find this in Landow’s book: As Ted Nelson, one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Book and Volume – Observations

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Now that I’m all cocky because I finally got past the first "event," and was presented with my first task and seem to be on the right road, some observations about both IF and this piece in particular… Just as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & IF: Story

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

First, the IF piece, Book and Volume:  Finally got the secret code word that answers the pager.  Simple, and I’d thought I’d already tried it, but I guess not in the right sequence.  Anyway, the response on my part was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Book and Volume

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Well, it didn’t take long for me to fall right back into character with this–and I had to search the net to find the WinFrotz Interpreter to download.  I love IF, because it’s just so me.  I am in my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: New Stuff

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Well, there’s just no way I can think about getting another job when Dennis Jerz brings even more "reading" into my life, resurrecting interactive fiction (of the text sort) with a couple of entries this morning on new writing software … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Patchwork Girl – Finding My Way

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Still struggling with discovering a method to the madness of this hyperfiction novel by Shelley Jackson and it’s mainly because I’m so damn stubborn about learning the controls.  I’ve gotten just a few pages into it, but am reluctant to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Hypertext 3.0 – Chainlinks

Posted on June 9, 2006 by Susan

Even within the text format of this book are subtle "hyperlinks" that direct the reader elsewhere and I must order Barthes’ S/Z and perhaps Derrida to fully understand.  I am familiar with the readerly versus writerly concept of Barthes’ "death … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Mapping

Posted on June 6, 2006 by Susan

(Above from Eastgate presentation of Storyspace) In playing around a bit in Patchwork Girl–not getting into the story yet; still intrigued by the process–I’m learning a bit more about the Storyspace format.  Storyspace is the software program that assists the … Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: Patchwork Girl

Posted on June 4, 2006 by susan

Today’s a day for Patchwork Girl, and perhaps Afternoon – A Story; hyperfiction to wander in while grounded inside. I’ve been in Michael Joyce’s Afternoon before, but not very far and not really inside the story.  It is hypertext in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Patchwork Girl – Interactive Fiction

Posted on June 1, 2006 by Susan

Just got a few minutes between tomatoes and squash today to play this piece, but am beginning to feel a bit more comfortable in it.  (YES.  I DID read the manual finally.) When I say "in it," that’s pretty much … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Patchwork Girl – Getting Started

Posted on June 1, 2006 by Susan

Of course I downloaded this and got right into it without having much of an idea how this particular program works.  Manual?  I don’t need no stinkin’ manual!  Until later.  When I thought the CD was a lemon.  Then I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: I got it! I got it! I got it!

Posted on May 31, 2006 by Susan

On Mark Bernstein’s recommendation I placed the online order on Sunday. This morning I checked UPS and found this: Package Progress: Location Date Local Time Activity WATERTOWN,  CT,  US 05/31/2006 6:48 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY 05/31/2006 6:30 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN … Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: On the trail(s)

Posted on May 30, 2006 by Susan

Good top-off to the day:  "Your Eastgate order is being shipped today via UPS Ground." Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Story

Posted on May 29, 2006 by Susan

In thinking more in terms of hypertext in planning any writing, I find that while any story will lend itself to the form, some are more natural to it than others.  I have one complete (Paths) that is set out … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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