tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452732101544377991.post846471846092246072..comments2023-05-29T06:12:59.272-05:00Comments on Disjointed Observations: George Landow & Hypertext EvaluationJonathan Polkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629784845492490477noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452732101544377991.post-90990104361924448422010-01-07T23:07:03.117-06:002010-01-07T23:07:03.117-06:00I've been working with 3.0, but it's still...I've been working with <i>3.0</i>, but it's still out of date. Hazards of writing about technology.<br /><br />I'd have to go research it, but weren't the three endings of <i>Clue</i> selected randomly? It's the sort of thing that gives the impression that one has control, but in reality that option is nonexistent. <br /><br />That's an interesting take w/ the supplementary materials; I hadn't considered that. (Perhaps there is a post on that in the near future.) My inclination was to use things that are nonnative to cinema, but split-screens or captions arguably have their base in film. I'll figure something out.<br /><br />If you keep reading these posts, you'll have no reason to listen to me present this paper in St. Louis.Jonathan Polkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01629784845492490477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452732101544377991.post-11177310710074237962010-01-07T22:31:41.763-06:002010-01-07T22:31:41.763-06:00We have to read a bit of Landow's Hypertext 2....We have to read a bit of Landow's <i>Hypertext 2.0</i> for our exams. It struck me as being a little out of date (a lot of what he was theorizing about would seem to have been put into place by things like Wikipedia), but apparently there's been a version 3.0. Which is weird, since our theory reader came out <i>after</i> it.<br /><br />If you're looking at "choice" in cinema, what about <i>Clue</i>? Or even crazier, the old <i>Star Trek</i> VCR board games? (I think these existed for other franchises as well.) Actually, I think there are several board games that do this sort of thing now.<br /><br />If you want to go extralinguistic, the other thing that occurs to me are films that use outside materials: your viewing of <i>Star Trek</i>, for example, can be enhanced by your reading of <i>Countdown</i>. (Well, maybe that's a bad example.) <i>Star Wars</i> might be a better example of this-- the prequels are arguably unintelligible without other texts!<br /><br />There's some interesting audio dramas you might consider hyperlink (or maybe just gimmicky): <i>Chain Gang</i> by Rob Shearman, a 13-part weekly series where the plot of each episode was determined by the listeners. And <i>Doctor Who: Flip Flop</i>, where you can listen to its two discs in whatever order you want.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16546370463396570168noreply@blogger.com