Electronic Writer

Please tell me that you saw Barack Obama’s speech yesterday.  I was unable to, and have only heard snippets and overviews.  I will read the full text later today. 

But, the reactions are pretty consistent–at least from some of the news sources that I respect.  The Huffington Post has collected some of the reactions. 

Read them for yourself . . . .

Obama Race Speech Reaction – Politics on The Huffington Post

I have always been a mash-up of things including (but not limited to) literature and video games.  In that lovely space between sleep and awake I have envisioned a Tomb-Raider-esque tours through Dante’s “Inferno” and Homer’s “Odyssey,” and espionage games based upon Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” 

At first, I thought Second Life might provide the answer . . . although the closest that I could find was troupes of Anime fans recreating comic book wars. 

We Tell Stories may be the beginning of something incredible–or, at least something written/created for the target audience where I so happily belong.

Read the review:
Interactive game mixes classic novels with Web 2.0 mashups | Geek Gestalt – A blog by Daniel Terdiman – CNET News.com

Or, play the game:
We Tell Stories

TechCrunch Announces Launch of Blogger & Podcaster Network

This could be the beginning of something great: a network of new media producers, benefits and collaboration, non-restrictive rules, and an encouragement to join. 

Hmmm . . . .

We all thought that the Internet would break the grip of the corporate-controlled media on information.  Were we right?  This article is a review of Project for Excellence in Journalism. Our assumptions, according to their report, have not quite come to fruition as we had expected.  Read the following Coop’s Corner at CNET for the full story:

Were we wrong about tech and the democratization of media?

Were we wrong about tech and the democratization of media? | Coop’s Corner : A Blog from Charlie Cooper – CNET News.com