My week 3 assignment can be found here.

FanFic: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Storytelling

I read a lot of bad fanfic last week. The prospect of taking “ownership” of any one of my favorite literary characters isn’t appealing. I then considered taking a character I really dislike (Harry Potter, Jack Ryan from Tom Clancy’s series) and writing something twisted about one of them. Again, I’m just not [...]

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Mobile Activism

Assignment
Invent your own spoken, typed or visual image code, along with a reason for its use, that could be communicated through a mobile device using texting, image sharing, bluetooth or any other aspect of the mobile device.
Introduction
I really like the idea of masking a conversation within a larger communications platform. Specifically, I think Twitter (at [...]

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FDNY Scanner Monitoring

Mobile Activism

Assignment was to listen to an online police or fire scanner stream for two hours and document what you hear. I chose to monitor the FDNY.

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VIDEO: How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube

Visualizing Data

How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube from Aaron on Vimeo.

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55 Word Story

Storytelling

After reading a few of the stories posted to this LiveJournal site, I chose to write a 55 word story. Here goes:
The teahouse owner shuffles to my table and announces, “the Maoist rebels have arrived.” He bows, palms pressed together, then disappeares. I glance towards the trio of soldiers huddled around the fire chanting propaganda [...]

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6 Word Story

Storytelling

Our assignment this week was to read Smith’s Six Word Memoirsand then write one of our own. Here’s mine:

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