Steve Ersinghaus

An interesting night in new media. It was all about games. We reviewed a few interactive fictions considering ideas such as puzzle clues, description as a means of orienting the reader, and details as a means generating interest in world exploration. These require the art of poetry.
Then we built board games. The students [...]

I’ve added a “record correction” to my Doninger post.
Thanks, Andy.

Why is it that the spaces I pay attention to are filled with hypertext and the tools, such as Gimcrack’d (could someone check the iphone on this one? Um, Jesse?), Hypertextopia, and now the wall outside my office at work? This is a good thing.
Thanks Susan for the links.
One genius of Storyspace is its editor, [...]

Reportage from the Second Curcuit Court of Appeals is coming in on the Avery Doninger case, an item often in the post space here. This case is about relationships. These relationships should not be overcomplicated.
It calls for a rethinking by school administrators of their role in public discourse. It’s not about whether [...]

Congratulations to Sally Terrell, our wonderful talent, for her inclusion in For Keeps, a collection of memoir edited by Victoria Zackheim. Over the course of the next few days, Sally will be reading from her work. She’ll be at Community Book Store in Brooklyn tonight at 7:30 PM, December 8th at Bluestockings in Manhattan [...]

It’s interesting that given the subject of weblog comments that Susan adds to the issue in a post on collaboration and lets the blogger/typepad magic work on its own. She links back to Wayne at Nutty Streamers to illustrate weblog community.
In a like-minded community with a job to do the issue isn’t writing but getting [...]

The themeing is nearly done.
Here’s the result. Cleaner presentation and less clutter.
This was fun.

This is an important post by Mark Bernstein on what people have covered at the most recent Tinderbox weekend. I know people who want the tool and examples are critical.
I use Tinderbox to track what I need to cover in British Literature and am noting structures and arguments for things that need to change [...]

Three programs are holding my attention on TV. Heroes, a filmic hyperspace, Avatar, an animated epic whose characters and story are just charmingly wonderful, and the newest rendering of Doctor Who. Burns’ War is also right on. If you listen, all these programs share common features. Time is either a character or a force.
Now, this [...]

Steve Collins writes about Tunxis’ mission statement and makes interesting associations to Harvard
In a word: sort of. Tunxis has created a mission statement that succinctly states the goals of the College but is, I believe, very generalized and somewhat vague. By definition, a community college seeks to provide an affordable education to a broad range [...]

Good to see Carolyn looking forward to writing some scifi. Sorry we missed each other in the summer rushes.
Good luck to you.

Carianne Mack and Mindy Bray have a new collaborative weblog up and running. Currently the surfaces are ironic. Play with change and visibility. The weblog itself is more than just a frame but also part of the surface of display.

First of all I think the iPhone is a necessary device for a lot of reasons, especially as I continue to wrestle with game controllers, preferring keyboard controls to moving things about with the thumb. And it’s a good thing that people like Mark are taken with the device and its possibilities.
And in this post [...]

Spazeboy helps to clear things up. Here.

Gizmodo has a comment on haptic feedback issues related to the iPhone.
I’ve always been critical of small keyboards. Small keyboards and the human hand. Hm.
Apple will be pressing a fairly deep design/use/habit. It will be interesting to watch how the design changes inputs and feedback models on other devises, readers, and architectural embeds.
But iPhone isn’t [...]