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Re: Look At This Amazing Animated Typography, Built by a Google Whiz

flowman1 — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:59:49 -0000

http://poemflow.com

http://poemflow.com/poems

Re: Son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Has Died - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

flowman1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:15:37 -0000

Read Sylvia Plath's powerful poem on suicide:

http://textflows.com/Plath_...

Composed 4 months before her death.

Re: The end of text? Hardly.

flowman1 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:58:36 -0000

Stross doesn't say that text is coming to an end. The article is about screens. The reason you consume 5x the amount of text as 10 years ago is because most of your reading is now done on a screen. That's the change.

And consistent, daily screen-reading transforms how we read. To successfully read 5x as much, you skim and skip. What may (or may not) be lost is the facility for sustained, immersive reading. Print requires that we push our eyes across the page to get the reading to happen. There's an effort involved. A burden, even. In contrast, video requires much less work. We can't read when we are tired, but we can watch television.

Stross asserts that we've passed a tipping point: that screen media so dominates our daily lives that we are losing our inclination to access print.

TextTelevision is a New England new media startup that reshapes text to provide a new, more fluid, immersive, video-like reading experience on a screen. Here's Franklin Roosevelt's Inaugural Address in the worst of the Great Depression:

http://www.textflows.com/FD...

Still very timely today.

Re: The Official Text of Barack H. Obama’s Inaugural Address

flowman1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:32:55 -0000

Here is a different way to experience the Inaugural Address...as a flow:

http://www.textflows.com/Ob...

It runs longer than the speech itself, but you see the whole thing newly.

The speech was excellent.

Re: Inaugurapalooza

flowman1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:24:36 -0000

Words do matter.

Here's a slower, calmer way to read/hear what Obama said:

http://www.textflows.com/Ob...

It runs longer than the speech itself (by half), but you have the time to see all the words and how he put them together.

The speech was very good.

Re: The Chairman

flowman1 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:16:15 -0000

Here's another way to read the essay:

http://www.textflows.com/fl...