Comments on: XML Stories http://www.techiteasy.org/2008/02/24/xml-stories/ A Technology and Business Weblog provided to You by a Global Group of Friends. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:29:11 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Georgia http://www.techiteasy.org/2008/02/24/xml-stories/#comment-3765 Georgia Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:58:24 +0000 http://jeremyfain.wordpress.com/?p=918#comment-3765 There is a lecture on the issue, across the atlantic : <a href="http://cms.mit.edu/events/colloquiaforums.php#022808" rel="nofollow">CMS Research Fair 2008</a> There is a lecture on the issue, across the atlantic : CMS Research Fair 2008

]]> By: Georgia http://www.techiteasy.org/2008/02/24/xml-stories/#comment-3764 Georgia Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:45:51 +0000 http://jeremyfain.wordpress.com/?p=918#comment-3764 Vincent you got it very right on the first point: Texts are currently mostly serial (ok you can skip pages, but it’s a quite random choice). Serial texts can be risky: (Quoting from Emil Salimov this Saturday) “in a Russian play the writer has the authority to freeze the most critical part of a battle to describe the horse's hair one by one, the dirt on the soldiers' suits and the love affairs of the commander. The desperate reader has to go through all this information or jump some pages to get away with the heart attack by the stress he accumulated reading about the green cloth, with thick spots of bravehearted men blood shining under the frivolous siberian sun, just as the tears of his beloved Olympiada Samsanovna shined on her cheeks the day he left St Petersburg on the lavishly decorated chariot, doted with fine stones that came directly from the mines of the Irktschouk’s wild mountains.... A pair of glasses If I could read this text as a painting, spot the ontology I fancy and forget about the other horses and gallons I would feel a little bit more comfortable with this bulky last paragraph. Even better if I were able to play with it and move around the horses. A term that makes some sense but that’s all <a href="http://www.convergenceculture.org/aboutc3/convergence.php" rel="nofollow">“transmedia entertainment”</a> I think the mobilephone books are a good future-archaic language model : they seem to be so economical that you may only have to add the cases to get your home made game-novel. (I still don’t know any Japanese) Twitter seems more focused on the participatory and cross platform aspect, I like the experiment. Still in the dark about the tools that are used to craft the transmedia contents (create the XML, SMIL, WAP or other), and thus no idea if this is something that is easily produced and handled. Nada. Blanc. Can’t wait to read you! Vincent you got it very right on the first point: Texts are currently mostly serial (ok you can skip pages, but it’s a quite random choice).

Serial texts can be risky: (Quoting from Emil Salimov this Saturday) “in a Russian play the writer has the authority to freeze the most critical part of a battle to describe the horse’s hair one by one, the dirt on the soldiers’ suits and the love affairs of the commander. The desperate reader has to go through all this information or jump some pages to get away with the heart attack by the stress he accumulated reading about the green cloth, with thick spots of bravehearted men blood shining under the frivolous siberian sun, just as the tears of his beloved Olympiada Samsanovna shined on her cheeks the day he left St Petersburg on the lavishly decorated chariot, doted with fine stones that came directly from the mines of the Irktschouk’s wild mountains….

A pair of glasses

If I could read this text as a painting, spot the ontology I fancy and forget about the other horses and gallons I would feel a little bit more comfortable with this bulky last paragraph.

Even better if I were able to play with it and move around the horses.

A term that makes some sense but that’s all

“transmedia entertainment”

I think the mobilephone books are a good future-archaic language model : they seem to be so economical that you may only have to add the cases to get your home made game-novel. (I still don’t know any Japanese)

Twitter seems more focused on the participatory and cross platform aspect, I like the experiment.

Still in the dark about the tools that are used to craft the transmedia contents (create the XML, SMIL, WAP or other), and thus no idea if this is something that is easily produced and handled. Nada. Blanc.

Can’t wait to read you!

]]> By: Vincent van Wylick http://www.techiteasy.org/2008/02/24/xml-stories/#comment-3766 Vincent van Wylick Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:34:11 +0000 http://jeremyfain.wordpress.com/?p=918#comment-3766 Hey Georgia. Well, as usual, your particular style of writing covers some deeper issues. I tend to think about it in two ways: one, how can information be distributed in new and innovative ways, of which yours is one example? And two, how can we <strong>process</strong> these new and innovative ways best? I'll publish some thoughts about this on tech it easy in a few days. Regarding the open standard, I find that Twitter et. al, which we discussed many times on this blog, does address this idea of a cross-mobile-PC-internet-platform quite well. As I already sent you via mail, <a href="http://twitter.com/140novel" rel="nofollow">140novel </a> is a twitter-channel that illustrates what a book or a story would look like in that format. And I'm sure there's other ones. While it certainly looks interesting, I'm not sure how practical it is from either a production- or consumption-perspective. Hey Georgia. Well, as usual, your particular style of writing covers some deeper issues. I tend to think about it in two ways: one, how can information be distributed in new and innovative ways, of which yours is one example?

And two, how can we process these new and innovative ways best? I’ll publish some thoughts about this on tech it easy in a few days.

Regarding the open standard, I find that Twitter et. al, which we discussed many times on this blog, does address this idea of a cross-mobile-PC-internet-platform quite well. As I already sent you via mail, 140novel is a twitter-channel that illustrates what a book or a story would look like in that format. And I’m sure there’s other ones.

While it certainly looks interesting, I’m not sure how practical it is from either a production- or consumption-perspective.

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