{"id":2341,"date":"2009-08-18T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/technology-and-the-edinburgh-fringe\/"},"modified":"2009-08-18T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T19:00:00","slug":"technology-and-the-edinburgh-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/technology-and-the-edinburgh-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology and the Edinburgh Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"

having been through the Fringe guide many times to plan out some of the adventures of the Fringe Podcast, I noticed back in June a number of shows that were leveraging technology such as online chat-rooms, Facebook and various other real time internet sites to start or drive their plot. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s worth a closer look,\u201d I thought. And the results of that examination can now be read over on the BBC News website:<\/p>\n

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This should not come as a great surprise. There is more emotional activity happening online every day, from relationships and marriage proposals, to storytelling, describing the world and capturing moments with sounds, pictures, video and text. <\/p>\n

Far from turning us into a nation of reclusive typists, the internet is proving to be a rich catalyst of emotive experiences and settings for playwrights to explore the age old worries of life, love, tragedy and humanity.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can read Hi-tech takes to the stage<\/a> in full on the BBC News website.<\/p>\n

\"Bedlam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

having been through the Fringe guide many times to plan out some of the adventures of the Fringe Podcast, I noticed back in June a number of shows that were leveraging technology such as online chat-rooms, Facebook and various other real time internet sites to start or drive their plot. \u201cThat\u2019s worth a closer look,\u201d I thought. And the results of that examination can now be read over on the BBC News website: This should not come as a great surprise. There is more emotional activity happening online every day, from relationships and marriage proposals, to storytelling, describing the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1145,13,52],"tags":[230,1254,164,378,1255,5507],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fringe-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-links-to-my-articles","category-web-2point0","tag-bbc","tag-chatroom","tag-facebook","tag-fringe","tag-literary","tag-web-20","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-BL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}