Drew Murphy's Public Library

23 Oct 09

Annenberg Media Exhibits -- Volcanoes - Dynamic Earth

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Dynamic Earth
1. What are plate boundaries?

2. How are colliding plates different than separating plates? - ddddmurphy on 2009-10-23

Plate margins that are coming together are called convergent
margins, while those that are splitting apart are called divergent.
A third type, transform-fault margins, are sliding against
each other, going in opposite directions (like those of the
San Andreas

Annenberg Media Exhibits -- Volcanoes - Melting Rocks

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Melting Rocks
1. What is a volcanic eruption?

2. In the viscosity video clip, describe how the two types of lava differ from each other? - ddddmurphy on 2009-10-23

Annenberg Media Exhibits -- Volcanoes - Introduction

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Introduction

What citites are threatened by volcanoes?

What countries are these cities in? - ddddmurphy on 2009-10-23

11 Oct 09

Death of the Author

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I would alter this passage and say that the reader does not "write" through hyperlink selection. The reader "edits". Thus the authors role in hypertext is to anticipate the how the link will "edit" the text or put the current ideas of the text in proximity to the linked to ideas.

See highlighted text alludiing to poorly executed link creation that does not understand the importance of idea proximity. In other words, don't link to things that edit the reader away to ideas of distant proximity. - ddddmurphy on 2009-10-11

"[s]torytelling and narrative lie at the heart of all successful communication. Crude, explicit, button-pushing interaction breaks the spell of engagement and makes it hard to present complex information that unfolds in careful sequence" (41). The real allure of hypertext, it may turn out, is not its alliance with the writerly text, but with The Book, with its possibilities, through fixed links and narrow path choices, of ever more ingenious ways of directing, controlling and surprising the reader. The Author may be dead, but his ghosts maybe even more eloquent.

The End of the Book

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See Hightlight: the change from book to hypertext changes what we see as possible and changes the underlying vision of how we perceive the world. - ddddmurphy on 2009-10-11

To think of the world not as a Book but as a hypertext is to conceive of it as a heterogeneous, mutable, interactive and open-ended space where meaning is inscribed between signs, between nodes, and between readers, not enclosed between the limits of a front and back cover, or anchored to some conceptual spine called the author.

The Book of Nature

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see the highlight.... it relates the idea of the book of nature and the news broadcast in TV... affects our values on the way in which we imagined the world....

The book of nature is a medieval global perspective, so is the evening news. - ddddmurphy on 2009-10-11

The Book of Nature, as another manifestation of The Book, reveals the enormous impact which the linear model of textual organization has had not only our values of what constitutes literature (its importance being especially evident in the emergence of the novel) but on the way in which we have imagined our world.

The Book

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Useful for establishing a definition from which to parallel the TV... see highlighted quotes - ddddmurphy on 2009-10-11

More abstractly, a book, with its front and back cover, its first page and last, is a model of our desire for completion, wholeness, and closure. The very physical organization of a book, with pages bound to a centre spine, invites us to proceed through a text in linear, pre-determined manner, moving first from left to right across the page, then from page to page and chapter to chapter. The Book thus upholds our mutual fascinations with etiology and teleology, with beginnings and endings.
The Book are thus conceived as passive receptors of the undiluted truth its author intended.

The Graphic Novel

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Important observation here.... This quote points to a possible solution to incorporating the dynamic online narrative I've been talking about. The syntactic unit might be a version of the "frame" he talks about in this quote. The fact that the frame can be moved and in turn alters the meaning of the piece is key. This modularity is parallel to the ideas of inset links I've been supporting, except I was wedded to the linearity of a left to write text form. Idea: Could the new Apture embed window serve as a "frame".. hmmm. - ddddmurphy on 2009-10-11

The frame constitutes the basic syntactic unit of the comic strip. Placed in a discrete sequence these frames form a grammatical block analogous to a conventional sentence (changing the sequence of frames changes the meaning of the total strip). However, unlike words, frames can interact in more complex syntactical forms: superimposition, interlocking and transmuting frames (where speech bubbles become the frame and vice versa, or where a group of frames form a window into a complete scene). (129)

John Ruskin, William Morris and the Gothic Revival

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useful to draw correlations between TV and the transition to online self publishing where the means of production are transferred back. Its not just about text, its about owing the means of multimedia production.... the image, the moving image..... the program, the broadcast... who owns the format. - ddddmurphy on 2009-10-11

What is at issue here is not simply the visual appearance of the book, but the importance of the artist retaining what Marx called the means of production. With the advent of the electronic text, the author once again becomes his or her own publisher and is able to use the very medium of the book as a vehicle of the artistic expression. Retaining control of every aspect of a text's production, from writing to packaging and distribution, the author of the electronic text regains the possibility of fulfilment Ruskin sensed in the Gothic imagination.

Johannes Gutenberg and The Printed Book

"Together, these new methods of mass production helped pave the way to the growth of a mass reading public, a public which finally wrested literature from the closed circles of the educated and wealthy."

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useful quote for making a parallel with TV and the closed circle of tv broadcasting - ddddmurphy on 2009-10-11

Together, these new methods of mass production helped pave the way to the growth of a mass reading public, a public which finally wrested literature from the closed circles of the educated and wealthy.
Together, these new methods of mass production helped pave the way to the growth of a mass reading public, a public which finally wrested literature from the closed circles of the educated and wealthy. This revolution entailed not simply a change in the world of literature but, as Marshall McLuhan wrote, a change in consciousness it
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- Together, these new methods of mass production helped pave the way to the growth of a mass reading public, a public which finally wrested literature from the closed circles of the educated and wealthy. This revolution entailed not simply a change in the world of literature but, as Marshall McLuhan wrote, a change in consciousness itself.
- Together, these new methods of mass production helped pave the way to the growth of a mass reading public, a public which finally wrested literature from the closed circles of the educated and wealthy. This revolution entailed not simply a change in the world of literature but, as Marshall McLuhan wrote, a change in consciousness itself.