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A Few Good WordPress Plugins [Update]

February 17 Comments Off on A Few Good WordPress Plugins [Update] Category: Blogging, Feed, HackText, Wordpress

Looking to start your own WordPress site, or just improve a current one? Here are the WordPress plugins that I love best.

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  2. WordPress Gives in to Google on Real-time RSS
  3. Work and play in DC, NYC [Update]

Brick-and-mortar bookstores have a future. It’s mobile.

February 16 Comments Off on Brick-and-mortar bookstores have a future. It’s mobile. Category: Feed, HackText

Borders’ bankruptcy is being seen as a victory for e-books and the beginning of the end for brick-and-mortar booksellers, but it doesn’t have to be. Here’s how to build a better bookstore.

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  1. Friday synthesis post: Soundscapes and Bookstores
  2. eBooks’ greatest obstacle is that they function like books
  3. The Browser Future of Interactive Fiction

Five things the success of Facebook chat tells us about the future.

February 15 Comments Off on Five things the success of Facebook chat tells us about the future. Category: Feed, HackText

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Facebook chat has quietly conquered everyone else running chat software, almost without trying. Why did Facebook succeed at beating out dedicated services that had been in the game longer and had dedicated platforms? These days most of my chatting goes on via Facebook chat with a small minority […]

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  2. Facebook Bans News of SpeedDate.com
  3. 4 Step Social Media Strategy – MEGA [Re-post]

Building structures inside of your story [Narrative Artifacts: 2 of 4]

February 14 Comments Off on Building structures inside of your story [Narrative Artifacts: 2 of 4] Category: Feed, HackText, Transmedia

Sometimes it is valuable to have something inside of a story that both the characters and participants can manipulate. Building an artifact that intersects with your main narrative thread is more common than you might think and very useful. The first narrative artifact-type I’d like to deal with are narrative-centric artifacts. These are narrative fragments that are internal to […]

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  1. Artifacts: building dimension into your narrative [Narrative Artifacts: 1 of 4]
  2. Expanding your narrative with parallels [Narrative Artifacts: 3 of 4]
  3. Decompressed Storytelling and Sandbox Games