Geoffrey Young
StopWatch Media

Geoffrey Young is the co-founder of StopWatch Media and developer of the iPhone application for the original graphic novel The Carrier. A programmer with a long history of involvement in open-source software, Geoff is frequent speaker at influential software conferences such as the O’Reilly Open Source Convention and ApacheCon, lead author of the well-received mod_perl Developer’s Cookbook, and an officer in the Apache Software Foundation.

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8:30am–9:15am Wednesday, 02/24/2010

Digital Storytelling: The Evolution of Publishing Fiction on a Mobile Device

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Location: Odets (4th Floor) Level:

Geoffrey Young (StopWatch Media)

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What can a digital story look like when the publishing medium has internet access, the reader's location, and can be programmed page by page? This talk will examine a novel publishing experiment - a full graphic novel published exclusively on an iPhone that uses email, SMS, geolocation, and more to pull each reader into their own version of the story. Read more.

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