My graduate course, Writing for Electronic Communities is currently working its way through Richard Landow’s tome, Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. This is my first time making my way through the third edition (published in 2006). Though it is always nice to go back and visit Storyspace…
The March 2008 edition of Harper’s arrived today, and in it is a wonderful example of how internet technologies are not value neutral. Ginger Strand’s annotation "Keyword: Evil" (which Harper’s has made available for free online) spans two pages as she uses call-outs connected to an architectural schematic to dissect the energy-use implications of…
The goal of Pangea Day is to unite the world through the visual power of short films. Submit your own by 15 Feb 2008 at http://www.pangeaday.org/.
Netvibes, the RSS reader and information ecosystem that I have been using with my students has previewed ginger (to be released in January 2008), which has the much needed feature of social networking (which I hope will allow users to share ecosystems).