Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 95
June 29, 2012
Your E-Book Is Reading You
Your E-Book Is Reading You:
In the past, publishers and authors had no way of knowing what happens when a reader sits down with a book. Does the reader quit after three pages, or finish it in a single sitting? Do most readers skip over the introduction, or read it closely, underlining passages and scrawling notes in the margins? Now, e-books are providing a glimpse into the story behind the sales figures, revealing not only how many people buy particular books, but how intensely they read them.
June 28, 2012
Kids in the Hall - Hard Day (by cinemmatic)
Well, it’s...
Kids in the Hall - Hard Day (by cinemmatic)
Well, it’s not like I have any special powers or anything…
June 25, 2012
Fiction that pushes at the limits of design
Fiction that pushes at the limits of design:
As doom and disaster surround the paper book, writers are teaming up with graphic designers to push at the boundaries of what the novel can do.
June 24, 2012
Please RT
Please RT:
It’s possible to have a clear attitude toward Twitter if you’re not on it. Few things could appear much worse, to the lurker, glimpser, or guesser, than this scrolling suicide note of Western civilization. Never more than 140 characters at a time? Looks like the human attention span crumbling like a Roman aqueduct. The endless favoriting and retweeting of other people’s tweets? Sounds like a digital circle jerk. Birds were born to make the repetitive, pleasant, meaningless sounds called twittering. Wasn’t the whole thing about us featherless bipeds that we could give connected intelligible sounds a cumulative sense?
Robert Yang on Translating the Gay Experience Into Games
Robert Yang on Translating the Gay Experience Into Games:
Has any game ever succeeded in portraying non-heterosexual figures accurately? Yang thinks it’s still difficult to say; the industry is still learning to tell stories with interaction. “Most game characters are still refrigerators with guns,” he laments.
