public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags fiction & users

02 December 2006

Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts

subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online

01 December 2006

Four Word Film Review

by 4 others
really, reviews in just four words for over 16,000 films

Reader²

by 20 others
another social bookmarking site to find books to read like the ones you know, in genres you prefer, enjoyed by other readers with your tastes; it's one of the fun features of Amazon.com, now with whole sites for the purpose

Flickhead

online film journal, offbeat and cult as well as international film covered

Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10

by 2 others
Canadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources

27 November 2006

What Should I Read Next?

by 9 others
Like many web2.0 search sites, you tell it what you like and it builds a profile of your preferences. Film and entertainment addition in development.

26 November 2006

LibriVox

by 8 others
goal is to record all the books in the public domain; lots of audio-lit here

22 November 2006

StorySprawl Hyperfiction Story Creator

ongoing fiction sites that readers can contribute chapters to

Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter

It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.

20 November 2006

Listology: "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

lists like this give me ideas of what to look for in the library; the whole idea of "listology" is whacky and fun

18 November 2006

15 November 2006

100 films

film blog; announces upcoming blogathons: Lovesick Cinema, Feb. 14; Unspoken Cinema, 08 January; Film Criticism, 01 December-03 December; Alfred Hitchcock, 15 November; large network of film bloggers write for these

13 November 2006

11 November 2006

dream

tranquil animation with zen spirit; again, worth exploring narratives with a whole different time sense and way of making a point

02 November 2006

Tameri Guide for Writers: Plot and Story

one page of a larger, useful site for writers; this page covers what a screenwriter thinks about to construct a spine, here called plot, or basic story idea; it is the central task for the writer

21 October 2006

STORYTRON - Interactive Storytelling

Software for something between a game and literary hypertext. "Storytronics uses Verbs to define what may happen in interactive storytelling. Each Verb represents one possible dramatic action, like a kiss, a demand, or an advice." Looks like fun.

15 October 2006

MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine

search engine for Internet film and DVD reviews