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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Crowd-sourced television goes to the next level with Bar Karma and Storymaker

February 08 Comments Off on Crowd-sourced television goes to the next level with Bar Karma and Storymaker Category: Feed, HackText

Current’s newest TV show, Bar Karma, is an evolution in storytelling. The show is a platform for community contributions, ideas and amplified cooperation. The creators leverage contributions, recommendations, pitches and votes through a platform created by video-game great Will Wright. The project is powered by a tool called Storymaker, which would be very useful to journalists, video game developers and narrative […]

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Huffington Post and AOL: 5 things to take away

February 07 Comments Off on Huffington Post and AOL: 5 things to take away Category: Feed, HackText

AOL has announced that it will acquire the Huffington Post and place Arianna Huffington as AOL’s editor in chief. What does this mean for the media, the future of content creation and the internet at large?

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Learn your culture, remix culture

February 07 Comments Off on Learn your culture, remix culture Category: Feed, HackText

If you haven’t been watching Kirby Ferguson’s excellent Everything is a Remix videos, here’s a quick collection and some links to the excellent documentary. We often talk about remixed media as if it were something new to our culture. However, in these extremely informative videos Ferguson traces the modern remix back to 1961.

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