Trove spectacularly fails to deliver.

April 27 Comments Off on Trove spectacularly fails to deliver. Category: Feed, HackText

Washington Post’s recently released aggregator site Trove brings little to the table, both in terms of content and function.

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Trove spectacularly fails to deliver.

April 27 Comments Off on Trove spectacularly fails to deliver. Category: Feed, HackText

Washington Post’s recently released aggregator site Trove brings little to the table, both in terms of content and function.

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Links 3-30-11: +1, Project Thunderdome, Amazon’s consumer cloud, Against gamification

March 30 Comments Off on Links 3-30-11: +1, Project Thunderdome, Amazon’s consumer cloud, Against gamification Category: Actual, Links

The big news of the day is Google’s partial launch of +1, a very geeky answer to the Like or Retweet button. In a move inspired by forum websites of the late 90s, Google is testing a product that allows you to “+1” search results.

Story arcs beyond TV [Thinking]

March 03 Comments Off on Story arcs beyond TV [Thinking] Category: Feed, HackText, Transmedia

Sometimes it is important to maintain a character or narrative over multiple stories. The tool for that is story arcs. Story arcs are most common in TV and graphic novels, however, with the easy linking of stories, there is an opportunity to expand the use of arcs. A quick review: A story arc allows you to move one narrative thread […]

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