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>- reading on web is slower than reading from paper (patience is lower)
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>- it's active ("lean forward" not "lean back")
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>- visual (bcos paper ain't free, limiting pix in paper editions, but for
> the web, you always have a surplus of photos but not a surplus of text)
The hegemony of linear storytelling in non-linear medium was an interesting
point, too. We meet mr. Aristoteles here, again.
Then again, often when authors who call some presentation "multimedial",
"hypertextual" or "non-linear", are just trying to cover the fact that
there isn't much of a story to tell.
>this definitely creates opportunities for new types of writing and reporting.
Basically, yeah, but most people don't want to read anything that too
radically differs from classic ways of telling stories. Yet.
Only games have succeeded to lurk in interactive and even non-linear
storytelling to mainstream. Take a look at the popular Playstation 2 game
Grand Theft Auto III: There _is_ a story, but it's very flexible to your
way to "read" it. The plot points can be passed in several different ways.
If you don't want to follow the story, you can do something else, until you
feel like going through the next "official" story chapter. There are
sub-stories and not-related stories you can "read" or not "read" - however
you want.
But try this approach on any other storytelling form _than_ games, and
nobody's interested.
Slicing the story is ok with people, and that's even what they suppose to
find on the internet. But the slices should make up a linear - should I say
Aristotelian - story.
>it makes navigation very important; you wan tto click around an interesting
>site, but as soon as it sucks you're outa there !
Yeah, and the beef should be served on the table immediately.
But that's true with newspaper articles, too. Usually, when you've read the
caption and the first paragraph of any news article, you've already got all
the essential to understand the story. The points are just repeated and
deepened in the rest of the article.
>- when individual journalists and writers get web-based feedback,
> are they pretty good about actually reading it and acting on it ?
At least in HS Verkkoliite they read it, and they react to it sometimes
with even too much of enthusiasm. :) But don't count on getting a reply
from any writer of the paper-HS.
>- do they get any story ideas from web feedback ?
Sometimes. Yeah, there were a couple of occasions, like the story about
Welho cable modems that set to fire themselves. The story was hinted thru
email. If I remember this correctly.
>- how enthusiastic are writers about getting multimedia to accompany
> their articles ?
It's not about enthusiaism, it's about money and resources. HS don't have
them, anymore. The management cut both. Using multimedia costs, and isn't
too fast to get online.
Haven't seen anything multimedia-ish on HS Verkkoliite after the turn of
the year.
The Verkkoliite and Nyt folks are very pro-multimedia. They just don't have
money to buy it.
> are they able to explain their wants and needs to
> the multimedia guys ?
Some are, some are not. Some learned to, some didn't.
>- have writers expressed interest in online chats ?
Nope. It's widely considered as junk communication.
HS has been planning to open a discussion forum on their net site. They've
talked about it for about a year, now. The problem is: how to maintain the
level of discussion? (I hope this wasn't inside information...)
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