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ARGNet: We Tell Stories: Six Stories, Six Authors, Six Weeks, and then Six to Start Ned Batchelder: Active URLs URLs as sentences - nice idea. Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74 - New York Times When I did Classics at University, one of our professors would say ‘Fagles is wrong’ at least ten times per lecture. Version 2.5 « WordPress Codex After the last completely painless upgrade, I’m superstitiously thinking this one will make my website go on fire....

More on the We Tell Stories fiction series and Alternate Reality Game follows shortly, but I got a bit distracted from my reading and sleuthing when I found this post by ‘nara’ on the Unfiction Forums, a community website devoted to ARG playing: I’ve been following trackbacks from the various articles mentioned here. I found the one for Jack Mottram’s submit response blog. Is the story you get from the email supposed to be about what happened to him at the station? Then, later, this: I created a twitter account to follow Jack Mottram…I hope this wouldn’t be considered stalking….this is what his last post said: Anyone else reading/playing We Tell Stories? http://tinyurl.com/2vckou - http://icanhaz.com/cluez Wonderful! For a little...

The first installment of Penguin’s We Tell Stories series launched yesterday. It’s a pacy short story by Charles Cumming that unfolds through a Google Maps interface: As well as being six stories by six Penguin authors, We Tell Stories is an ARG, designed by Six To Start, set to be launched once the six interactive fictions have all been published over the coming weeks. There are, though, already some little ARGish clues peppered through the map text of the first story: the addresses of container companies, prominent mentions of easily-visited places (various rooms in the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh for example), and a ‘phone number: 020 8133 8141. I rang, and heard this: Hello, Alice? I’ve made a terrible mistake. I need your help. I have a story...