Next week I’m taking part in a quite cool experiment with narrative on the web, Crushing It! It’s a comic love story told entirely through social media by an international group of writers for Social Media Week. Ben Macintyre would dissaprove, but you might not. You can follow it on the website, crushingitstory.com, on the twitter list or become a fan on facebook here to get alerts about what is happening. The action starts 6pm Monday 1st Feb.
Follow the development of the idea on the blog of originator Jill Golick, Story2Oh
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BBC Technology did a great article with boffin Rollo Carpenter of Existor about the chatbots he programmed for 221B. They are quite interesting to play because instead of a choice of several dialogue options to interrogate a suspect, players have free text input and have to actually evaluate what they have already seen and formulate questions on their own. The chatbots have a certain number of scripted answers, they have to, but the number of possible inputs is infinite.
Caitlin Burns at The Social Robot gave the game and associated twitter content a thorough and thoughtful review that made me smile.
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The game is afoot – 221B.sh
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