Unlecture thoughts to speculate
Video games can be considered an interactive narrative, however games are not about storytelling, you don’t win stories you read them.
A text is anything that communicates meaning or has an intention.
Hypertext could be a post cinematic writing practise, nodes are like shots in a film that connect together.
The Longtail is defined by links, it is important to link to each other and build the network, we all live in the Longtail.
[…] More Unsymposium Thick Description var addthis_product = 'wpp-262'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true,"data_track_addressbar":false};if (typeof(addthis_share) == "undefined"){ addthis_share = [];}No idea where Nadine pulled these from, they read like some odd episode out of West Wing, but a weird list of coincidental things in history, some of which make you go, “really?”. It isn’t that one caused the other, but in thinking of history as linear the simultaneity of the world gets completely lost. History didn’t happen then, it must be with us now in some way (history is what is remembered now of then). Intertwingled. All the way down. David thinks about hypertextual reading for things that aren’t hypertext (we do this with most of our media these days) and the importance of the link. A link is treated by Google as a sort of endorsement, that a link from that term or phrase, to that page, means there’s probably some relation between the link text and the destination, and this is a very important part of how Google ‘understands’ the web as a reputation network – links to a page build its reputation. Brittany has a brief but useful list of points to ponder. […]