You consider " 'Literature' to be a narrative flow set out by the author", but it might be an Artifcact of the Publishing Process. The current problem is, the Media Companies don't want to deal with 6 different 10-page-endings.
Hypertext/Online, it's cake.
See my rants elsewhere for the Print Live On Demand angle.
Okay, to play Cross Advocate to your nice post, I'll posit that Hypertext writing is more important than ever!
But first let's deal with terms. I'll use a (Shameless Plug) http://www.freevoteusa.com/ (/Shameless Plug) to illustrate. However badly, I got rid of most of the "Placeholder" signs, so there it is. Back to the point: You can Expand and Collapse the topics to your taste. At its best, that's what Hypertext Authoring does. X days (weeks if I get lazy) from now, I'll upload a new version with updates on all the nodes.
Nice FP Sir, but this time it stumbles into a Colossal new topic.
It took way too long for the tech to Propogate, I'll give you that.
But the Future of Writing is Dynamic Hypertext.
Enough of these 1-shot Blogs with 8 pages on the same story. (Yay, Ad Views!)
The right way to do it is one page with 8 updates. Except Unskilled Users won't look if it's not fed to them via Rotator. Onward.
Hypertext Authoring means an Author can plan more than one story path. (Typically an ending.) With some work, there's some Footnotes too. But even more powerful is that if the Author hates an entire section, he just re-writes it and re-submits it. With Print Live On Demand, no one cares, the Reader gets the Best Known Version. Only Novel Historians would know it was different.
Hypertext solves Colossal problems on the Author Side.
It used to be that you submitted Your Work to an Editor, who could Do Things To It, and *if you were lucky* they had a $10/hour Fact Checker to catch you when you mis-quoted dates and stuff.
Now, I am a believer that we should quit treating book like Monuments - the Third Edition Revisions take care of most of it. So if you Print Live off a file, the Author Patch is there for the Mistaken Fact.
(Random made up example) (Circa 2004) "We don't know if the Limbic System is involved with Alcohol use. (Patch, 2009) "Oh yes, we found a correlation (not causation) with Limbic changes vs. Alcohol use."
It's been more prevalent in *non-fiction*, where Wikipedia is the poster example. In about 3 hours today I finally understood the Car Lingo of My Cousin Vinnie. (What is Four Degrees Before Top Dead Center?)
In Fiction, yes, the authors have slacked off a bit. Done right it becomes Dragon's Lair or Choose Your Own Adventure. We're still locked into the classical style from inertia by the big media companies that don't want to do any work to package 6 endings into a book.
Meanwhile, also nonfiction, talk about timing - after months of a fairly lame sig here, I finally switched it to actually announce my (Alpha 0.1 level) site:
I found a program that lets me produce Javascript dynamic nodes that let you expand and collapse topics. One day I'd write a story like that with footnotes - you could breeze through the story or you could wander down the Chapter Notes to look at Moore's Law, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 'University of the North Window' (they had so many University Political Prisoners that they got fed up and taught classes in the Gulag Prisons!). And more. I very distinctly remember a footnote by Mr. S. that said "If I ever have time I want to write a story about...". He might be out of time, I might have time to weakly honor his request with my feeble story skills.
Point is, the Academics might be as much as ten years ahead of the curve. The existing companies want to make money on existing products, so they mold the landscape. But I am a champion of the HyperText Writing Method, which I call Writing Like Software. Sure, laugh if you want at my "0.1 Alpha" version, but at some point, enough content will get to all the nodes that "You" (General User Base) will stop laughing and y'all will go "Oh. Right. I see now."
That's the future of writing. Elsewhere I have ranted about Print Live On Demand, the Future of Books. So sure, when an Author submits and update, the next copy of the book that gets Live Printed contains the new material.
Your analogy isn't quite right. We don't pay $80/month for batteries. It's that ominous slow financial drain that's the issue for me.
Oh, and I live a quiet life, so at home I do comp stuff such as this on my desktop, work has Wifi as well, so it's the "third rail" scenario when I'd "theoretically" want a data app out and about - so then I simply plan to go somewhere that has it. I'm not a crackberry exec so the times I *haven't* wanted Wifi but been unable to get there are very rare - hasn't happened for about a year.
Worth it to me to save about $800 a year in phone fees.
I'll see your If Only and raise you the Anecdote. I bought my iPhone "in the usual way", had it for a few months while I used the full strength plan, then just canceled the plan and paid about a month's worth as the termination fee (but cheaper than retaining the other 8 months of the plan!). Then he rep at the AT&T Store just switched it over. She did warn me it was unusual and creative and he/she wasn't sure it would work, but here I am and there it is. I now have all the fun of the hardware without the data plan.
I just missed the Pinball Heydey, catching instead the early Arcade Heyday.
Rule of Thumb was to take a $10 roll of quarters! Because EACH of 7 games needed attention!
Worst spendings: A : against a Neo-Pro at Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat 1: $30. B: against Mushmanand Goron in Ataxx Circa 1993. $20 C: Recreational games with friends of Mortal Kombat 3: $50 D. beating Killer Instinct 1: $30
Excel is my Go To program as well. Besides "Sales and Marketing", it runs a lot of Finance stuff. I have promoted the use of Excel over Word in a lot of cases in my company because Word is starting to really tick me off with its aggressive Paragraphing & Listing defaults. I'm no newbie but I burn fifteen minutes a whack trying to get someone's Word letterhead template to quit trying to send 8.76 X 11.02 invalid paper sizes to the printers, (which then hoses the print queue in the middle of the print run for the Boss). Etc Etc Etc.
Except for the Format-Obsessed types, I solve 70% of our silly one-shot problems with a 2 column Excel page with an extra "slidable margin" column or something. EndUser goes away happy, having solved The Crisis Of The Hour, and I go back to doing my other stuff.
I get tired rather fast after work, so I've have done a lot of split sleep shifts. The only trick is when you have to still keep an 8-5 office schedule the next day, the WHOLE split sleep takes some 13 hours for me, including the block in the middle, so that I can't "dawdle after work" and start the pattern much later than about 6PM to really do it right.
This is a topic I've had an amateur interest in for years, so I may get The Book mentioned in The Article.
The key "potential drawback" is that they used to say that two short blocks don't lead up to the last long REM cycle that's supposed to be the one that really does wonders for your health at hours 6-8 in the 8 hour cycle. So I'd want to read The Book to see what became of that piece of Former-Wisdom.
Did anyone else catch the irony that in an article about "not publishing enough research", they... didn't do any research? Unless I'm missing something on the confidentiality side, someone has the list of letters sent, right? So then that's column 1 on the spreadsheet. So then you go to the Faculty Listing, and... wait for it... it becomes clear which fields the academics worked in, right?
So then do I get to write my Paper in the Psychology of Deliberately Obfuscating Data or in Journalism/Economics of Speed of News vs Quality of News? So there's my Paper, so I get to Keep My Job, right?
Sigh: And we wonder why we can never get people to pay for content.
The fact that can't peel off anything nasty about Samsung off the top of your head either (contrast with Sony!) supports my first point - if all corps are "evil", some are "more evil than others" to borrow Animal Farm. Here it's about navigating precise brands of evil so that the user escapes relatively intact.
Meanwhile, if you want your own metrics, "install some clean software" such as something the FOSS crew would come up with. No need to rely on the "Evil" providers for a handout.
Meanwhile, Privacy is "correlated with" Anonymity. They're slightly different circles on a venn diagram. You can email me if you want to thrash that one out.
Sure, I'm no fan of Foxconn, but let's "separate out evils". The question at hand is a set of glasses without "Whitelisted Spyware" from the vendor, or Lock-In tricks, etc.
Then you can find TWO equally good glasses like that, then you can go looking at the moral side. But we need the category to exist first.
Sounds also like the Jamaican dialect among the seasonal workers in my area. I'll sign off with:
"Me ha' go' way now co' me ha' simtn' fi' fix eh moi sumtn' fin yaum." (aka "Catch ya later, I have to go fix a bunch of $hit and I'm fscking hungry." in/. lingo.)
Sure, your concern is very real, but let's try our hand at sidestepping a marketing trap.
One of the most profound concepts of marketing is to try to convince people that "X Corp's Subset is the only desirable Subset of the overall Set of Products/Services."
So right now we're unnerved at both Google and Apple and maybe even Microsoft if they decide to issue one of these glasses. But it's the Set of AR glasses that I absolutely believe is (part of) the future of computing. So I think I'd trust a company like maybe Samsung, who isn't on my radar of Evil Companies (correct me if they need to be) just making an platform-agnostic set of hardware AR glasses with adaptors to all the phones.
So then for me the question becomes "knowing the very real data sales issues of Google and Apple, if it takes that kind of money to kick this into top gear, then social fashion progress (avoiding the laugh-at-the-nerd factor because "oh, it's okay NOW that *I* do it" might be the TRUE trade off that personal data. Then we just use the Linux mentality and go off the Google-Apple grid.
Maybe if the Big Corps (Google and Apple) produce these types of glasses, hopefully in Sunglass Factor, then we can nudge the fashion sense along away from "Faces". I'm quite happy to have the phone in my pocket doing the computing - I just want the glasses to replace the monitor. And yes, if everyone is wearing them, they're "always on", You can go to a coffee shop and get your beverage, send an email/social post or three, without even changing your expression.
But it has a Kevin Bacon Number of 3. Alex the Parrot WorkedWith Irene Pepperberg WhoWasIn "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" (1999) {(#1.5)} With Dean Cain WhoWasIn "Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (2003) {(2003-10-08)}
Slashdot Mirror
I haven't yet busted Cracked's research in any of the ten-minute periods I look at their funny lists.
You can start with facts, then arrange them with Editorial. They have mastered that.
Bingo.
You consider " 'Literature' to be a narrative flow set out by the author", but it might be an Artifcact of the Publishing Process. The current problem is, the Media Companies don't want to deal with 6 different 10-page-endings.
Hypertext/Online, it's cake.
See my rants elsewhere for the Print Live On Demand angle.
Okay, to play Cross Advocate to your nice post, I'll posit that Hypertext writing is more important than ever!
But first let's deal with terms. I'll use a (Shameless Plug) http://www.freevoteusa.com/ (/Shameless Plug) to illustrate. However badly, I got rid of most of the "Placeholder" signs, so there it is. Back to the point: You can Expand and Collapse the topics to your taste. At its best, that's what Hypertext Authoring does. X days (weeks if I get lazy) from now, I'll upload a new version with updates on all the nodes.
That's the future of Writing.
Nice FP Sir, but this time it stumbles into a Colossal new topic.
It took way too long for the tech to Propogate, I'll give you that.
But the Future of Writing is Dynamic Hypertext.
Enough of these 1-shot Blogs with 8 pages on the same story. (Yay, Ad Views!)
The right way to do it is one page with 8 updates. Except Unskilled Users won't look if it's not fed to them via Rotator. Onward.
Hypertext Authoring means an Author can plan more than one story path. (Typically an ending.) With some work, there's some Footnotes too.
But even more powerful is that if the Author hates an entire section, he just re-writes it and re-submits it. With Print Live On Demand, no one cares, the Reader gets the Best Known Version. Only Novel Historians would know it was different.
Convinced Yet?
Hypertext solves Colossal problems on the Author Side.
It used to be that you submitted Your Work to an Editor, who could Do Things To It, and *if you were lucky* they had a $10/hour Fact Checker to catch you when you mis-quoted dates and stuff.
Now, I am a believer that we should quit treating book like Monuments - the Third Edition Revisions take care of most of it. So if you Print Live off a file, the Author Patch is there for the Mistaken Fact.
(Random made up example) (Circa 2004) "We don't know if the Limbic System is involved with Alcohol use. (Patch, 2009) "Oh yes, we found a correlation (not causation) with Limbic changes vs. Alcohol use."
Hi Mr. Cold Wet Dog.
I've been keeping my eyes on this for years now.
It's been more prevalent in *non-fiction*, where Wikipedia is the poster example. In about 3 hours today I finally understood the Car Lingo of My Cousin Vinnie. (What is Four Degrees Before Top Dead Center?)
In Fiction, yes, the authors have slacked off a bit. Done right it becomes Dragon's Lair or Choose Your Own Adventure. We're still locked into the classical style from inertia by the big media companies that don't want to do any work to package 6 endings into a book.
Meanwhile, also nonfiction, talk about timing - after months of a fairly lame sig here, I finally switched it to actually announce my (Alpha 0.1 level) site:
(Shameless Plug) http://www.freevoteusa.com/ (/Shameless Plug) - Please enable Javascript.
I found a program that lets me produce Javascript dynamic nodes that let you expand and collapse topics. One day I'd write a story like that with footnotes - you could breeze through the story or you could wander down the Chapter Notes to look at Moore's Law, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 'University of the North Window' (they had so many University Political Prisoners that they got fed up and taught classes in the Gulag Prisons!). And more. I very distinctly remember a footnote by Mr. S. that said "If I ever have time I want to write a story about ...". He might be out of time, I might have time to weakly honor his request with my feeble story skills.
Point is, the Academics might be as much as ten years ahead of the curve. The existing companies want to make money on existing products, so they mold the landscape. But I am a champion of the HyperText Writing Method, which I call Writing Like Software. Sure, laugh if you want at my "0.1 Alpha" version, but at some point, enough content will get to all the nodes that "You" (General User Base) will stop laughing and y'all will go "Oh. Right. I see now."
That's the future of writing. Elsewhere I have ranted about Print Live On Demand, the Future of Books. So sure, when an Author submits and update, the next copy of the book that gets Live Printed contains the new material.
Your analogy isn't quite right. We don't pay $80/month for batteries. It's that ominous slow financial drain that's the issue for me.
Oh, and I live a quiet life, so at home I do comp stuff such as this on my desktop, work has Wifi as well, so it's the "third rail" scenario when I'd "theoretically" want a data app out and about - so then I simply plan to go somewhere that has it. I'm not a crackberry exec so the times I *haven't* wanted Wifi but been unable to get there are very rare - hasn't happened for about a year.
Worth it to me to save about $800 a year in phone fees.
I'll see your If Only and raise you the Anecdote. I bought my iPhone "in the usual way", had it for a few months while I used the full strength plan, then just canceled the plan and paid about a month's worth as the termination fee (but cheaper than retaining the other 8 months of the plan!). Then he rep at the AT&T Store just switched it over. She did warn me it was unusual and creative and he/she wasn't sure it would work, but here I am and there it is. I now have all the fun of the hardware without the data plan.
Such restraint you had!
I just missed the Pinball Heydey, catching instead the early Arcade Heyday.
Rule of Thumb was to take a $10 roll of quarters! Because EACH of 7 games needed attention!
Worst spendings:
A : against a Neo-Pro at Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat 1: $30.
B: against Mushmanand Goron in Ataxx Circa 1993. $20
C: Recreational games with friends of Mortal Kombat 3: $50
D. beating Killer Instinct 1: $30
Then I basically retired from video games.
Since there is only EIGHT comments and I just lost my mod points, here goes without reading The A.
Of course in Scientific Circles there are Memes, but they're NOT the same ones that go Viral among Biz. Masters.
Science has to break new ground, so it's Anti-Meme.
The Memes circulate a level down, somewhere in the Consultant range.
Okay, this is the 170's time I've seen this.
Everyone, can we do Venn Diagram 101?
Smartphone is a Hardware Object.
Smartphones are *Correlated* with Nasty Data Plans. But it's not quite a 1-to-1.
Enter: iPhone on AT&T's GoPhone Plan. No Data Plan at all. Just buy minutes/text. Then you go to any McDonald's to use their Wifi free for data.
End Of Line.
Except him and the Senior Execs of course. And all Corporate Execs. And all Cops. And all Politicians.
Excel is my Go To program as well. Besides "Sales and Marketing", it runs a lot of Finance stuff. I have promoted the use of Excel over Word in a lot of cases in my company because Word is starting to really tick me off with its aggressive Paragraphing & Listing defaults. I'm no newbie but I burn fifteen minutes a whack trying to get someone's Word letterhead template to quit trying to send 8.76 X 11.02 invalid paper sizes to the printers, (which then hoses the print queue in the middle of the print run for the Boss). Etc Etc Etc.
Except for the Format-Obsessed types, I solve 70% of our silly one-shot problems with a 2 column Excel page with an extra "slidable margin" column or something. EndUser goes away happy, having solved The Crisis Of The Hour, and I go back to doing my other stuff.
I get tired rather fast after work, so I've have done a lot of split sleep shifts. The only trick is when you have to still keep an 8-5 office schedule the next day, the WHOLE split sleep takes some 13 hours for me, including the block in the middle, so that I can't "dawdle after work" and start the pattern much later than about 6PM to really do it right.
This is a topic I've had an amateur interest in for years, so I may get The Book mentioned in The Article.
The key "potential drawback" is that they used to say that two short blocks don't lead up to the last long REM cycle that's supposed to be the one that really does wonders for your health at hours 6-8 in the 8 hour cycle. So I'd want to read The Book to see what became of that piece of Former-Wisdom.
(Checks the Article hoping to avoid a blunder)
Did anyone else catch the irony that in an article about "not publishing enough research", they ... didn't do any research? Unless I'm missing something on the confidentiality side, someone has the list of letters sent, right? So then that's column 1 on the spreadsheet. So then you go to the Faculty Listing, and ... wait for it... it becomes clear which fields the academics worked in, right?
So then do I get to write my Paper in the Psychology of Deliberately Obfuscating Data or in Journalism/Economics of Speed of News vs Quality of News? So there's my Paper, so I get to Keep My Job, right?
Sigh: And we wonder why we can never get people to pay for content.
Nice reply. Here's some notes.
The fact that can't peel off anything nasty about Samsung off the top of your head either (contrast with Sony!) supports my first point - if all corps are "evil", some are "more evil than others" to borrow Animal Farm. Here it's about navigating precise brands of evil so that the user escapes relatively intact.
Meanwhile, if you want your own metrics, "install some clean software" such as something the FOSS crew would come up with. No need to rely on the "Evil" providers for a handout.
Meanwhile, Privacy is "correlated with" Anonymity. They're slightly different circles on a venn diagram. You can email me if you want to thrash that one out.
Sure, I'm no fan of Foxconn, but let's "separate out evils". The question at hand is a set of glasses without "Whitelisted Spyware" from the vendor, or Lock-In tricks, etc.
Then you can find TWO equally good glasses like that, then you can go looking at the moral side. But we need the category to exist first.
I can't believe this one hasn't showed up this far down either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRbZJXjWIA
Why is everything always different on the internet? If you rant somewhere else in public, do you then get dragged into *having* to apologize?
This is making me want to change my name to one of those Glyphs so that it screws with the data tracking software going everywhere.
I'm happy to even just take out a normal keyboard and "type into thin air".
Anything to get the Science Fiction Future to arrive here now!
At least you're coherent!
Sounds also like the Jamaican dialect among the seasonal workers in my area. I'll sign off with:
"Me ha' go' way now co' me ha' simtn' fi' fix eh moi sumtn' fin yaum." /. lingo.)
(aka "Catch ya later, I have to go fix a bunch of $hit and I'm fscking hungry." in
Sure, your concern is very real, but let's try our hand at sidestepping a marketing trap.
One of the most profound concepts of marketing is to try to convince people that "X Corp's Subset is the only desirable Subset of the overall Set of Products/Services."
So right now we're unnerved at both Google and Apple and maybe even Microsoft if they decide to issue one of these glasses. But it's the Set of AR glasses that I absolutely believe is (part of) the future of computing. So I think I'd trust a company like maybe Samsung, who isn't on my radar of Evil Companies (correct me if they need to be) just making an platform-agnostic set of hardware AR glasses with adaptors to all the phones.
So then for me the question becomes "knowing the very real data sales issues of Google and Apple, if it takes that kind of money to kick this into top gear, then social fashion progress (avoiding the laugh-at-the-nerd factor because "oh, it's okay NOW that *I* do it" might be the TRUE trade off that personal data. Then we just use the Linux mentality and go off the Google-Apple grid.
I'll reply to you.
Maybe if the Big Corps (Google and Apple) produce these types of glasses, hopefully in Sunglass Factor, then we can nudge the fashion sense along away from "Faces". I'm quite happy to have the phone in my pocket doing the computing - I just want the glasses to replace the monitor. And yes, if everyone is wearing them, they're "always on", You can go to a coffee shop and get your beverage, send an email/social post or three, without even changing your expression.
Here's to the Matrix Look!
But it has a Kevin Bacon Number of 3.
Alex the Parrot
WorkedWith
Irene Pepperberg
WhoWasIn
"Ripley's Believe It or Not!" (1999) {(#1.5)}
With
Dean Cain
WhoWasIn
"Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (2003) {(2003-10-08)}
Ooh! I know this one!
(Simulation of a Patent Office worker)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P46qYCIt954