Slog - Comments on We Tell Ourselves Google Maps In Order to Live http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/we_tell_ourselves_google_maps_in_order_t This We Tell Stories website has been up for a few weeks now. It's supposed to be Penguin Books' new attempt to attract web traffic and get with the very late twentieth century. I tried reading The 21 Steps last week and my interest quickly waned: basically, it's a super-short story told on Google Maps. I don't understand what the maps bring to the story, except for a sad little bid at 'interactivity' by clicking on the mouse every time you finish another sentence. I don't believe that this is the future for anybody but a couple of marketers in... Copyright 2008 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:16:36 -0800 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:26:07 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by pcismyhero May as well rename slog to constant.thestranger.com. Not that I'm complaining, I like the content, but the rest of you slog writers better not slack off thinking Paul's got ya covered. ;)

]]> pcismyhero http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/we_tell_ourselves_google_maps_in_order_t#c977424 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/we_tell_ourselves_google_maps_in_order_t#c977424 Books Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:36:08 -0800 Comment by Aislinn Predictable, insipid, boring, and wholly reliant on an ineffective device. That story was simply awful. For being "super-short," it took nearly an hour to get through all the clicking and mapping.

In short: don't read it.

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/we_tell_ourselves_google_maps_in_order_t#c977479 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/we_tell_ourselves_google_maps_in_order_t#c977479 Books Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:26:07 -0800