{"id":2645,"date":"2010-10-24T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T17:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/stephen-elliots-adderall-diaries-for-ipad\/"},"modified":"2010-11-13T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T17:56:25","slug":"stephen-elliots-adderall-diaries-for-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/24\/stephen-elliots-adderall-diaries-for-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Elliot&#8217;s &#8220;Adderall Diaries&#8221; for iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/25\/business\/media\/25link.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Blurring the Line Between Apps and Books<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12px; font-size: 10px; color: #808080\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/c\/noam_cohen\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More Articles by Noam Cohen\" class=\"meta-per\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: none\">NOAM COHEN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>STEPHEN ELLIOTT, a 38-year-old from San Francisco, just introduced his first piece of software for sale: an app for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/i\/ipad\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"More articles about iPad.\" class=\"meta-classifier\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\">iPad<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/i\/iphone\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival news about the iPhone.\" class=\"meta-classifier\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\">iPhone<\/a>\u00a0called the Adderall Diaries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/25\/business\/media\/25link.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Peter DaSilva for The New York Times\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/10\/25\/business\/link1\/link1-popup.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not exactly a programmer \u2014 better to call him a writer. And the app that he conceived looks a lot like an electronic book. That is, most people who buy the app will do so to read the text of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.graywolfpress.org\/component\/page,shop.flypage\/product_id,287\/category_id,aab8f8b82b21ab061b2dcad58b93f9b1\/option,com_phpshop\/\" title=\"The publisher\u2019s profile of the book.\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">The Adderall Diaries<\/a>,\u201d his \u201cmemoir of moods, masochism and murder\u201d based on his childhood in Chicago group homes, which was published in hardcover last year by Graywolf Press.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Elliott says he has good reasons for producing his own iPad app, separate and apart from the e-book version of \u201cAdderall Diaries\u201d that is for sale, say, for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/k\/kindle\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival news about the Amazon Kindle.\" class=\"meta-classifier\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle<\/a>\u00a0or the iPad reader from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/apple_computer_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More information about Apple Inc.\" class=\"meta-org\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>. But those reasons are not the artistic, meta-fictional ones you might suspect \u2014 you know, so that when characters enter a bar, you suddenly hear music and a glass dropped by the waiter, or more fancifully, you can make them turn around and go somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/25\/business\/media\/25link.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Blurring the Line Between Apps and Books By\u00a0NOAM COHEN STEPHEN ELLIOTT, a 38-year-old from San Francisco, just introduced his first piece of software for sale: an app for the\u00a0iPad\u00a0and\u00a0iPhone\u00a0called the Adderall Diaries. He\u2019s not exactly a programmer \u2014 better to call him a writer. And the app that he conceived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}