{"id":1237,"date":"2011-04-01T07:45:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/01\/listen-stacked-podcast\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T03:05:14","slug":"listen-stacked-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/01\/listen-stacked-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to This: The Stacked Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1236\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/art-of-immersion.jpg\" alt=\"art-of-immersion.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Last Friday, I went out to Brooklyn and hung out with Christina Oppold, the creator of the literary blog <i>Stacked<\/i>, to talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0393076016\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Art of Immersion<\/i><\/a>, a book by <i>Wired<\/i> contributing editor that looks at the new forms of storytelling being built around entertainment properties like <i>Avatar<\/i>, <i>The Dark Knight<\/i>, and <i>Lost<\/i>. The result: <a href=\"http:\/\/stackedblog.com\/news\/premier-episode-of-the-stacked-podcast\" target=\"_blank\">a 50-minute conversation<\/a> about (among other things) how these narrative innovations might affect the publishing industry, with occasional detours through the existential hysteria prompted by <i>Dungeons &#038; Dragons<\/i> in the 1980s, the real meaning of <i>Fahrenheit 451<\/i>, the ascendancy of Amanda Hocking, and the transparent elitism of Andrew Keen.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a point in the podcast where we&#8217;re talking about fan wikis, and Christina mentions Terry Pratchett, and I&#8217;m all, &#8220;If there isn&#8217;t a Discworld wiki, there should be.&#8221; Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.lspace.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">there <i>is<\/i> a Pratchett wiki<\/a>, which was intended to be just about Discworld, so there you go. (Same for <a href=\"http:\/\/wot.wikia.com\/wiki\/A_beginning\" target=\"_blank\">the <i>Wheel of Time<\/i> wiki<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This was a lot of fun, and I know Christina has big plans for future episodes, so keep an eye out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, I went out to Brooklyn and hung out with Christina Oppold, the creator of the literary blog Stacked, to talk about The Art of Immersion, a book by Wired contributing editor that looks at the new forms of storytelling being built around entertainment properties like Avatar, The Dark Knight, and Lost. The result: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}