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Non Linear reading | LiveCharacter – From Print to Interactive — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:34:17 +0000

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WRITING ON THE ETHER: uAreWhich? | Jane Friedman — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:59:28 +0000

[...] Mike Shatzkin wrote up Citia ahead of #LaunchBEA, in “Citia” apps from Semi-Linear; a whole new way to present high-concept non-fiction. Like Wikert, Shatzkin is very high on the concept and on Holliday’s leadership. In his own [...]

By: Mike Shatzkin

Mike Shatzkin — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:39:00 +0000

It isn’t just a summary. Lots of value added. Lots of money spent developing this particular iteration of the IP.

Mike

By: David Sucher

David Sucher — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:48:00 +0000

Also, Kelly’s book is available in hard binding for 9 cents (plus $3.99 shipping!) at Amazon.

If I am interested in the title, might I not prefer to buy the whole book and then scan it? And if I like, read it in more detail?

I can visualize building a book from scratch using the authoring tools — an outlining program of sorts?– but I am wondering. Of course I am also intrigued as I am wondering what the edited version (the “App”) is like — what is the value added?

Anyway, curious to see how this effort rolls out.

By: David Sucher

David Sucher — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:45:00 +0000

Too bad no sample available.
I suggest that the “book” (or whatever it is) be made available as a free sample to give readers a flavor.
Ten dollars is too much for me to see if the book is anything more than a stack of HyperCards.

By: Mike Shatzkin

Mike Shatzkin — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:56:00 +0000

Yes, you got it.

I think it is available today: Monday, June 4.

Mike

By: David Sucher

David Sucher — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:47:00 +0000

Is the App available?
I only see a book by Kevin Kelly which I gather was produced with the Citia technology.
Right?

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By: Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs — Thu, 31 May 2012 23:17:00 +0000

This all sounds very like some research that was done in Logica in the UK in the 1980s. Knowledge was distilled into cards, cards were grouped into “hands” and the whole deck formed a subject to be learned. It was done in the context of intelligent computer-based learning at the time and knowledge-based descriptions of each card, hand, etc., were available to be manipulated by the machine which could overlay things like a model of the learner’s progress and a curriculum (which could identify prerequisite knowledge for the student as well as administer tests). There were working systems at the time and a couple of papers were published in the academic press and at conferences. What we didn’t have back then was an iPad…

By: Warren Ellis » Bookmarks for 2012-05-31

Warren Ellis » Bookmarks for 2012-05-31 — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:24:40 +0000

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