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You can also find me blogging at the electronic music blog eclectro.nl and journalism blog onlinejournalismblog.com.
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Hi, hypernarrative is a blog by Wilbert Baan about Art, Media and Technology with a focus on interactive storytelling. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed with Google or Netvibes. I'll post a few messages a week. Thanks for visiting!
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When browsing YouTube it reminds me how I enjoyed watching MTV all afternoon and night. I really miss the MTV I used to love. Maybe it is because I’m getting old (although 26+ is still MTV-able) and maybe it is because (we and thus) MTV stopped caring about videoclips and started to make television.
I really feel like doing something with all these videoclips on YouTube. In a new category on this blog, “I want my MTV” I will link great videoclips to (re)make our MTV!
I you know a videoclip that should be in here just send an e-mail to hypernarrative@gmail.com.
DJ Format featuring Jurassic 5 - We Know Something
Hypernarrative.com had a few small updates in the last week. Most of the updates are wonderfull extensions to the Wordpress engine.
- Feed handling by Feedburner. The way Feedburner presents the feed in a browser beats raw xml, and you can subcribe to postings in your e-mail. (Those of you who read this via RSS are already getting this via the Feedburner feed, thanks for subscribing)
- 5 “You read this, you might like” hyperlinks in each posting.
- 5 “Most recent posts” hyperlinks in each posting.
- Most popular tags in each posting.
Recently I see a lot of (short) interactive storytelling showing up on the web. Increasing bandwith and Flash video are making it possible to create large or full screen presentations without all those annoying download and progressbars in between.
We are spending more time behind computers and start to get used at watching video on our computers (meaning to sit and relax instead of clicking like crazy). The internet was all about, podcasting, wiki, sharing, friends, user generated content, video, viral and reality in 2005/2006. I think this year we will finally start to see really good, exciting, professionally produced immersive interactive stories.
The computer is not just video, it plays video. I think the combination of video and interactivity will really take off this year. So I decided to add new catagory to this blog called “interactive storytelling“.
Classics (movies):
- www.donniedarko.com
- www.requiemforadream.com
- www.blairwitch.com/mythology.html
(Dutch)
- www.nobodyhere.com
Do you know more interactive stories? Please tell me :)
Finally some democracy *kuch* on hypernarrative thanks to democracy, a poll plugin for wordpress. You can even add answers yourself.
Some stats about this website over the past year.
Blogactivity last 52 weeks
32,775 spam comments removed by Akismet since installing. Earlier this year deleted 40.190 by hand
Best read article: (Real) Full Screen YouTube and Google video @ October 16, 2006, 7:12 pm
Most used tags:
Google, 75 times
Website, 59 times
Flash, 51 times
Web, 51 times
News, 47 times
Online, 36 times
Mobile, 35 times
Design, 34 times
Information, 34 times
Play, 34 times
All tags on hypernarrative.com
Total postings on hypernarrative.com: 586
Total visits 2006: 164.000, since counting 246.000
Last week I was reading a Wired article (March edition) about how the video rental service Netflix is awarding $1.000.000 to the person or group who can improve its recommendation algorithm by 10%. Todays popular websites use smart algorithms to determine what we want or might like. Google is famous for its mix and so is [...]
At the Next Web conference there was an overall urge for relevancy. You noticed it in presentations and startups. Unfortunately there weren’t many speakers that had exiting answers. In his presentation Robert Scoble made clear that for most new web applications ‘The first experience sucks‘. Why? This is inherent to how these new web applications work. The [...]
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Last week I did an experiment with a linear story and loading photos from Flickr. This week I made a second experiment using the same code and adding a map. I will try to tell a second story. About the story This story is about how fast urban areas are growing. These growing areas aren’t in the [...]
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