Machinimania

Jasper Visser: "To address the most important issue first: there is no such thing as digital storytelling. There’s only storytelling in the digital age, and frankly speaking this isn’t much different from storytelling in the age of hunters, gatherers, dinosaurs and ICQ" ...

 

This is a wonderful story from real life. 

 

It's a Genius project.

 

Click abowe and watch the video and maybe, maybe you get so inspired that you can be a part of    turning the wheel around in your cumminity with a similar or other case that deserve it. 

@safegaard

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Lauren Drell: "If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's an emoticon worth?"

 

The fun thing is:

 

"This story is incorrect. I have already gone on the university website which published this information and pointed out that emoticons were used by the Defence forces of both Australia and the USA when I was in the Royal Australian Air Force as a Telecommunications operator in 1979. As far as I am aware, telex operators and computer operators were using these symbols long before that. The birth of the emoticon as a communications tool may never be settled, but I can unequivocally say that Mr. Fahlman may have been the first to use them where he was located at the time, but a quick check with Defence or Post Office personnel will quickly debunk him as the originator worldwide."

 

Click abowe for the full story.

@safegaard

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Hugh Hart: "In the new online series produced by Bryan Singer, people are going crazy for a chip that hardwires their nervous systems into the internet 24 hours a day -- until a virus kills a third of the world's population" ...

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