Comments: Interactively Storytelling
mud for blogging age: Life in the MUD is literary, relying on purely textual strategies, and it therefore provides a unique laboratory for the study of textual self-expression and self-creation, themes that are far from marginal in the practice of literary theory. (Espen J. Aarseth)
address barthes - trad. literary theory doesn't apply (aarseth)
addres eco - re: net labyrinth
flush out attach on branching narrative
misgivings about stuff like queneau's 100,000 billion poems - ok, it fills space, but so what? not all that compelling beyond an academic exercise - this can happen in 'database narrative' too
rankings: by subtle data mining instead of I give this a 4 or a 5 - harboring the power of blogging community - in this situation, however, there must be a way to prevent the rich from getting richer.
in hypertext, still one author - reader has choices, but only those they are given: neal stevenson and then there was the command line
Posted by mr. revisor at September 30, 2003 12:57 PM