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Are timestamps part of your site? They should be.

September 15 Comments Off on Are timestamps part of your site? They should be. Category: Blogging, Feed, HackText

On the web everything is in the present, but that doesn’t mean it is presently relevant or even accurate. Timestamps are an essential component of any online content you create. Timestamps are enormously important to participants with online content. While the content you are authoring may not always have relevance, it will always be on the web, sometimes […]
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  1. Friday synthesis post: Are comments part of your narrative?
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Narrative elements for future investigation [Thinking]

September 14 Comments Off on Narrative elements for future investigation [Thinking] Category: Feed, HackText

Part of the purpose of this blog is to examine elements of narrative, especially those that could be used outside of a traditional storytelling setting. I’m going to look over my notes and write down some of the elements I hope to explore in greater depth in the future. As I write stuff in the future, […]

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  1. Branching narrative schema and similar narrative structures
  2. Emmert Reveals New STO Game Elements, Fleets and Aliens.
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Read Like Me

September 13 Comments Off on Read Like Me Category: Feed, HackText

A while back I was in a professor’s digital journalism class talking a bit about what I do for Student Media at George Mason University. When I had finished the professor told his students that they should be more like me. While I’m not sure I can recommend “being like me” to anyone, I’d agree that […]

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Catch up on Narrative Artifacts

September 13 Comments Off on Catch up on Narrative Artifacts Category: Feed, HackText

Getting ready to finish off the series of posts on Narrative Artifacts. Don’t know what a narrative artifact is? Find out with the previous posts in the series.

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  1. Expanding your narrative with parallels [Narrative Artifacts: 3 of 4]
  2. Artifacts: building dimension into your narrative [Narrative Artifacts: 1 of 4]
  3. Story vs Narrative vs Plot