Googling on “digital fiction” Brings up These Hits
March 19, 2006
When I google on “digital fiction”, the top ten hits are the following:
- Digital-Fiction.com, a website with the slogan, “Creating Powerful Digital Fiction”. In fact, this company currently sells a handful of games for Playstation 2 and Gameboy Advance.
- dreamingmethods.com, a site offering a sampling of interesting experiments by authors of stories that they tell digitally. Every one I saw (which wasn’t all of them) was done in Flash. For example, here is a description of one story called “The Incomplete”:
“Explore the twisted, dream-like contents of a laptop PC’s corrupt and deleted folders. Read through or change the fragments of narratives that are already being manipulated by other site visitors.”
- bitbooks.com, a site offering what it calls “digital fiction links”. The links point to e-books for portable handheld reading devices. The e-books consist only of text, with no interactivity.
- games.ign.com/objects/027/027706.html, a page pointing back to digital-fiction.com, which was the first hit.
- http://dmoz.org/Shopping/ Publications/Digital/Fiction/, the Open Directory’s page for sites categorized under “digital fiction”. I saw the word “e-book” a lot in the links, but I did not visit every link.
- http://www.visuraimaging.com/writing2.html , a page that is not the best example of what’s available on the root website. I didn’t want to read it at all. Going to the www.visuraimaging.com root brought up a much more engaging and comprehensible page. The author may not have even intended for the “writing2″ page to be indexed by google? http://www.visuraimaging.com/writing.html looks like it is the one that is meant for the public. It’s about the author’s writings on architecture, film and the Maya software package. This is definitely not a digital fiction site, though it looks engaging and interesting to explore.
- I won’t copy and paste the long url for this one. This one is the Salt Lake County Library Service’s digital book catalog and download center. It’s a collection of ebooks that can be read on handheld devices.
- http://www.gamespot.com/ pages/company/index.php?company=64312, the Gamespot Company page for digital fiction. The dominant focus of the page is Dark Tournament.
“Big-time Yu Yu Hakusho fans will definitely find Dark Tournament to be a much more engaging experience than those just looking for a good 3D fighting game.” –Ryan Davis
- http://www.planetgamecube.com/ companyArt.cfm?artid=161, Planet GameCube Co’s company info page, which doesn’t have much info.
- http://dl.nlb.gov.sg/highbrowseonline/2005/ 12/beyond_the_book_digital_fictio.html
This tenth page took forever to load. It went to a government site - the National Library Board of Singapore! It contained a link to dreamingmethods.com
It makes me wonder if I should continue to use “digital fiction” as a category or keyword for my posts here in this blog. When I search the Technorati tags for “digital fiction”, I often get hits that contain more representatives of pages that fall within my scope of interest. Since my categories and keywords are meant for Technorati, not Google, I believe I’ll continue to use them, but I may give it a second thought. I have the choice of creating my own tags that I find more logical but that nobody else uses, or I can choose to use the tags that are already used on Technorati, regardless of if they don’t seem as logical.
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