Monthly Archives: October 2006

Ramblings on Nonlinear Storytelling in Film

By Michael Becker | Published: October 4, 2006
A new film looks to do for movies what hyper­text fic­tion tried to do for print in the 1990s. The film, “The Onyx Project,” tells the story of a spe­cial oper­a­tions mis­sion in Afghanistan, typ­i­cal mil­i­tary fare. What makes the film inter­est­ing is that the viewer is pre­sented with click­able options at the end of each [...]
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Geekspeak Baffles Neophiles

By Michael Becker | Published: October 4, 2006
According to a poll reported on the BBC, a large num­ber of peo­ple who buy high-tech gad­getry do not under­stand the terms that describe what their devices do. Those sur­veyed described them­selves as being “online.” That is to say, a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of the peo­ple who are using the Internet and its related tech­nolo­gies do [...]
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The Last Days of E-mail

By Michael Becker | Published: October 4, 2006
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that col­lege stu­dents are gen­er­ally aban­don­ing e-mail as the lin­gua franca of mod­ern writ­ten com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Students, the report says, would rather com­mu­ni­cate with their friends and class­mates via text mes­sages and other instant meth­ods, as opposed to e-mail which could take a few hours. Harcum College, a two-year inti­tu­tion in [...]
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Full Coverage

By Michael Becker | Published: October 3, 2006
I just stum­bled on to this one a few days ago by hap­pen­stance. Yahoo has really revamped its news sec­tion, includ­ing Full Coverage, a com­pre­hen­sive aggre­ga­tor that groups news sub­jects by topic and then divides sto­ries on that topic into cat­e­gories, like opin­ions, fea­ture, and arti­cles. It cer­tainly makes get­ting the big pic­ture about the [...]
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Google Buys Landmark Garage

By Michael Becker | Published: October 3, 2006
Google has appar­ently begun to expand into the real estate mar­ket. The Web giant recently pur­chased the garage where its founders cre­ated the search engine almost a decade ago. According to a report pub­lished on CNN.com, the com­pany did not reveal how much they paid for the prop­erty, but HP recently paid over a mil­lion [...]
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