Katie has put up a post on hyperwords, an extension of browser technology. She’s obviously been doing research on Ted Nelson.
I used Hyperwords extensively in the past but found that the app was a little too aggressive on the page. Anyone else try it?
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Kai Huang’s hypertext, In the Store, is up at Hypertextopia. His linking technique is interesting.
And John, his character, gets what he deserves.
Yes, even you can write an episode for Gravityland!
Our emails are being flooded by lots of interesting new tools and opportunities. The wonder of new media, but also the need to understand that things change quickly.
Thanks to Susan Gibb for the link.
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Tonight, work began on creating an analog hypertext by creating a paper-based system based on individual stories and personal preferences. Work will continue throughout the semester.
Steve explains the process.
Systems develop.
The “lexia.”
The hypertexts begin…
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Susan Gibb send along this link to Mission Stencil Story via If:Book.
The mission stencil story is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure story that takes place on the sidewalks of the Mission district in San Francisco. It is told in a new medium of storytelling that uses spraypainted stencils connected to each other by arrows. The streetscape is [...]
The Dreaming Methods website has been updated, opening many works to public use. DM offers fantastic examples of works that fuse a number of narrative and digital media methods. For example, The Scrapbook of Anne Sykes. New Media students can spend hours asking questions of The Scrapbook in the context of hypertext structure, editing, [...]
Mark Bernstein is always interesting on the subject of hypertext. In this essay, Hypertext Narrative and Baseball, he makes observations on the relationship between baseball and certain structural elements of hypertext:
To watch baseball well demands an eye for montage, for many things are always happening or about to happen. The pitcher eyes the runner leading [...]
We hear at Tunxis New Media love Will Wright. So we’re glad that Beau Anderson has found a similar enjoyment.
And he encourages the others in New Media 1: Perspectives to follow his hypertextual thinking.
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There are two new tabs at the top of every page (and also on the right sidebar) entitled Hypertext and Interactive Fiction respectively. These pages contain links to further information about theory, tools to create your own works, and other cool places to explore and interact with.
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People involved in the new media industry, which is a vast space of work, innovation, institutions, sciences, and collaborations do lots of traveling. New Media is a world phenomenon. So it’s time to think about Hypertext 2007 and heading off to England.
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Mark Bernstein mentions the previously linked-to video below by Michael Wesch and extends with a further link to Brian Kim Stephan’s The Dreamlife of Letters.
See also Mark’s entry The Smallest Narrative Unit.
John might want to check out the Korsakow System.
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A keeper for transitions, hypertextuality, and writerly space. Thanks to Susan Gibb of Spinning.