Putting together my recent post on Interative Alices I searched and searched to find an screenshot of the Voyager Expanded Book The Annotated Alice. Well — I never found one. But, I did come across this great article from Smackerel: When Multimedia was Black & White. They tell the story of how interactive media evolved on the early Macintosh. I particularly like their discussion of HyperCard (released in 1987), and how it ushered in a wealth…
 
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Watching this video demo of Wired magazine’s prototype tablet app, I was struck by how ordinary it felt. Yes, it was nice to see multiple pages from the magazine, to move fluidly among them, and for those pages to have some embedded interactivity. But overall it felt like a traditional solution. Are publishers ready to innovate? I certainly wouldn’t be the first to argue that publishers need to seriously re-think how they communicate. Are there…
 
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