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Emotion Markup Language
It’s a big week in the world of technology. The W3C consortium has proposed we create markup language to capture emotion. I am <thrilled></thrilled>! “As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human … Continue reading
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Apple–> iWork –> Pages — > E-Pub –> NO WAY!
Lately there’s so many new developments in the world of of publishing and e-reading, that it’s hard to keep up. You, Gentle Reader, may only be visiting this blog to see what I’ve been up to, and I can tell … Continue reading
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A Writer’s Update
This morning, a series of updates. On the writing front, I am currently working through some deep problem solving in my latest project. This one will be a novel-length work, and though I tend not to have any problems producing … Continue reading
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A blog’s evolution
Back in 2005, when I originally devised this blog as a way to chronicle my foray into becoming a published author, I imagined a fairly linear path. I envisioned posts about writing inspirations, habits, techniques. Not in my wildest dreams … Continue reading
Writing Inspiration via Flyer Miles
Perhaps no single act has ever done more for my creative and artistic renewal than travel. The further the better, literally and figuratively, I say. It is in those moments when we realize we can no longer see the front … Continue reading
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‘Inception’: When We Write About Dreaming
I saw Chris Nolan’s film “Inception” on my birthday this week, and within twenty or so minutes, I was already breathless, amazed at how close the ideas about dreaming, collective dreaming, cognition and even top-down processing were such a part … Continue reading
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Spirals: Cognitive Science, Memory and Fiction
I’m starting a new series of posts called Spirals, devoted to some of the work I am doing in graduate school in the realms of cognitive science, usability and human factors in digital reading. Today we kick off with an … Continue reading
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Great American Road Trip 2010 and MORE
Not a lot of updates around here lately. Summer vacation is in full swing, and the break from grad school, blogging, and even writing (more on this later), has been well received. This summer, as part of an exercise in … Continue reading
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Content’s Future: Not Science Fiction
What’s in a book? Language, ideas, narrative? Is that inherent to the binding and to the paper? No. What’s in a musical recording? The experience of the music? Does it matter if it’s on vinyl or MP3? No, it doesn’t. … Continue reading
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The Aether Age Approaches
No writeup needed. This is going to be good. The Aether Age approaches.
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