True story: a friend told me how she invested a large amount of money in order to advertise her product on a fairly central website. The campaign bombed and my friend queried the veracity of the site owner’s claim that his site is a popular place of convergence: “you cannot tell me that your site [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kindle’
Making your own bed: are there limits to professional responsibility?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: 1984, Animal Farm, charge my per exposure, charge per click-through, charge per per conversion, choice-criteria, Ease of use, el-bizarro, Fair price, George Orwell, get a foot in the door, Harvard Business School, Healing power, High quality, James Hattefield, Kindle, Modularity, Narakesari Narayandas, New York’s Monroe College, Pittsburgh Pirates, The Lawyer’s Paradox, Trina Thompson
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Barbarians at the gate
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: A.A. Milne, Alan Menken, always-on book, Bambi, Cinderella, consumer-centric morality, Digital Snacklash, Disney, Fantasia, High School Musical, Howard Ashman, Jungle Book, Kindle, literary ethnic cleansing, Loss of narrative excellence, Minifesto for a New Age, Nancy Miller, Peter Pan, Pocahontas, Snack culture, snack-o-tainment, Snacklash, Steve Jobs, Steven Johnson, The Future of Reading, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Little Mermaid, Urban, Victor Hugo, Winnie the Pooh, Wired magazine
Spanish is definitely on the rise worldwide, as I found out this morning, listening to my children’s intake of pulp from Disney and meeting a TV character called Manny who peppers his sentences with Spanish words and helps his – mostly Hispanic – community. On the face of it, Disney seems to be towing the [...]
Collateral damage on the road to digeracy
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, NarrativesTags: Bill Machrone, John C. Dvorak, Kindle, Michael J. Miller, PC Magazine, PCM, PCMag Digital Network, Personal Computer, telephone-directory industry, WAN, World Association of Newspapers, WSJ, Yellow-Pages
Back in the early 1980s, PC Magazine was a welcome arrival at one’s snailmail box. It carried voices of authority on that new animal, the Personal Computer. The voices were knowledgeable without pontificating, expert-like, but never condescending. PCM’s authority came from people like Bill Machrone , the magazine’s mythological editor cum publisher, John C. Dvorak, [...]
Emperor Zuiker’s New Posterior 2.0
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, NarrativesTags: Andersen, Anthony Zuiker, branching narrative, computer games narrative, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, digerate literature, digital novel, Dutton imprint, Jonas Carlquist, Kindle, narrative, souped-up e-book, storytelling 2.0., The Emperor's New Clothes, vapourwork, Variety, Web 2.0
Have you heard about Anthony Zuiker? Does the name at least ring a bell? Try again… that’s right, CSI! Zuiker is the Creator/Executive Producer of CBS’s megahit crime series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation“ and its two hysterically successful spin-offs – CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. According to stories making the rounds on the Media circuit, [...]
“Amazon Kindle is back in stock!”
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, NarrativesTags: Amazon Kindle, amazon.com, Digital copies, Digital Publication Distribution Agreement, Digital Text Platform, eBook, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, wireless reading device
An e-mail missive landed in my inbox and, spam though it were, it caught my interest, since, trumpeting “Amazon Kindle is back in stock!”, meant that this was either a ‘spin’ by Amazon.com skipper Jeff Bezos and his marketing team or, a landslide trend a-la iPod/iPhone. So I checked the wireless and found the story [...]