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article in today's Globe mentions grammatologists Ong and Havelock

A novel released in 1500 word segments each day through an iphone application. Part of the work can only be read if physically in the geolocation which coordinates with the text. These optional side stories, called "field reports", are tied back into the larger narrative. They are written in relation to the surroundings which they are placed, so the reader is getting visual cues by the setting. By Matthew Derby. He is also the senior interface designer for Harmonix. 

This is pretty cool! Another Emerson VMA student, Frank Horton, had a start up company that was attempting to do something similar to this idea.

some echoes of electracy--"history and theory of reading/writing"

This was mentioned in Nicholas Carr's book THE SHALLOWS: WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO OUR BRAINS

Seymour Papert's profile of Jean Piaget. Thought it illustrated some nice crossovers among our various readings.

I just read about this recently, really fascinating. It turns out the same group Foldit, is working in a similar format to develop better methods of teaching math and science in schools. And because these digital solutions are available in a virtual world, they are able to use tools like the internet to bring together gamers all over the world and really "hive mind" solutions to these scientific problems. In the article I read, the scientists talk about the flexibility the gamers have in working with 3D puzzles, and how it doesn't take long at all to solve these visual puzzles because it's just a game, and with a little bit of guidance it doesn't take long at all to catch the gamers up to speed with how proteins and enzymes 'should' fit together. Obviously there are some flexible rules, otherwise the computer would have figured it out earlier. So I just thought this application was really fantastic, especially when networked to include potentially more of the public sphere. Makes me scientifically endlessly optimistic!

An Argo, in an article we read, is a boat that was completely replaced: "Argo is an object with no other cause than its name, with no other identity than its form." I have been told that the human body is an Argo, that it replaces all its cells every 7 years, we are only structure, pattern. Current evidence says this is not true, some matter remains: "About the only pieces of the body that last a lifetime, on present evidence, seem to be the neurons of the cerebral cortex, the inner lens cells of the eye and perhaps the muscle cells of the heart."

This blog post mentions the "method of loci" which is another name for the "Memory Palace" tradition that we are exploring. There's also a link to a TED talk about spatial processing in the brain.

by Damian Ward Hey

I read about this in Henry Jenkins' "Game Design as Narrative Architecture" in FIRST PERSON.

"the street is immersed in data..." see also reference to Adam Greenfield, author of EVERYWARE (one of the readings for the panel presentations).

undergrad journal -- one project "asked students to bring together research and argument skills with the affordances of multimedia writing," similar to the Craig Saper folkvine.org reading for this week

This is the article I mentioned in class last Thursday. There are a handful of letters to the editor about it in today's Globe.