Archive for the 'Software' Category
Revving up Your RSS (Re-post)
3 Comments Published by Mark Marino September 16th, 2009 in Features, Off Topic, Criticism, Software.Ah, the Internet. Gregory Zobel ran this wonderful interview about managing your RSS feeds with WRT-amigo David Parry (of Academic Hack) on the now-defunct “Adjunct Advice.” Unfortunately, that “long tail” can sometimes be severed, so to help it grow back, we are reposting that interview here. This marks the second […]
Chris Crawford Delivers a Sneak Peek at SWAT! (with Interview)
4 Comments Published by Mark Marino February 14th, 2009 in HCTI, Features, News, games, Software, Interviews.WRT has it on good authority (the authors’) that Chris Crawford, collaborating with Laura J. Mixon, is readying the full launch of an interactive story-authoring system almost 20 years in the making. Introducing “SWAT” (Storyworld Authoring Tool) and Storyteller (the software for playing a SWAT Storyworld). Crawford first took on this epic quest […]
Xtranormal: Browser-Based Movie Making
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino February 9th, 2009 in generators, Features, Software, Film.A few years ago, we blogged about the movie-making tool built into Activision’s Sim-Tycoon video Game The Movies. It had proved an easy-to-use and powerful tool for creating the machinima “22 Short Films about Grammar.” Now it seems an even easier-to-use movie-making film is coming to a web browser near you.
Enter Xtranormal, an […]
Widget-Based Education
12 Comments Published by Mark Marino August 23rd, 2008 in HCTI, Features, News, Software, Education.
Recently I’ve caught a bit of widget fever. Widgets are modules of web content usually wrapped in an iframe that can be added to any web page and are often enabled for use on popular content management systems and social networking sites, such as Blogger and Facebook.
Widgets are to multimedia content what RSS […]
Elit 2.0 (a guide to literary works on social software)
14 Comments Published by Mark Marino July 1st, 2008 in HCTI, Poetics, Features, Text Art, Software.(8/17/08 Update: I’ve updated the list with some of the works from the notes and others people have emailed to me separately).
How do you teach Web 2.0? With elit, of course. This post offers an elit work for each tool.
A number of my colleagues (myself included) attempt to teach courses around Web 2.0 technologies. […]