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Real-time document collaboration at Etherpad.

But this is really cool.

Thanks to gTa [...]

The 11(?) Principles of E-Poetry

What it is and what it ain’t. Stephanie Strickland poses some ideas towards (and away from) an e-literature aesthetic(s). Or something like that.

Born Digital by Stephanie Strickland

Worth comparing with Manovich’s five principles of [...]

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Pac-Man

The [...]

Tracking Wikipedia

For those you wondering about relationships and how to build them, The Palo Alto Research Center has recently build software for tracking changes to Wikipedia pages called WikiDashboard, an incredibly useful service for researchers.

This, for example, is the search result for hypertext, which we were lamenting a few weeks ago. The page has [...]

[NMP09] Readerly vs Writerly

An interesting discussion began today in New Media Perspectives following our introduction to Barthes‘ ideas regarding the readerly and writerly.

This overview shifted to a discussion of hypertext with a reading of Richard Pryll’s Lies (a work from 1994 that still stands as a great introduction to the idea of hypertext.)  This was followed by a more [...]

Updated Links to the IF Projects!

I’ve updated the links to the interactive fiction projects. They are now at:

http://newmedia.hpiweb.com/play/

Make sure you update your links to your IF projects as the old ones will no [...]

New Media and Science

Jessica Sanner finds Rob Bryanton. His book website, put together in flash, is a good example of hypermedia concepts we’ll be exploring in New [...]

The New YouTube Account

We’ve set up our new YouTube account!

Check [...]

Play the IF 1st Drafts Online

The 1st drafts of the IF projects are available to play online.

Check some of them out and blog about [...]

Prepping for Digital Storytelling

We are starting our next project in digital storytelling today.

Here are links to tutorials for the software you might be using:

Windows Movie Maker (comes free on all Windows machines).

Another free download you might want to try is Photo Story 3 for Windows.

On the Macbooks, there is iMovie 08.

Lastly here is a site with links to all [...]

Knight News Challenge

From the Knight News Challenge
We’re giving away around $5 million in 2009 for the development and distribution of neighborhood and community-focused projects, services, and programs.

If you have a great idea that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support local conversations or [...]

The IF Project – Fall 2008

Here is the Interactive Fiction Project Assignment and requirements for this semester:

Microsoft and Generation Y

Dan Kimerling of TechCrunch has some interesting and arguable ideas on the relationship between Microsoft and future power users. He writes

Another example of Microsoft’s inability to understand younger users, comes in what I can only call their software design philosophy, which I can summarize as “Throw in More Features”. Yet, that seems antithetical to those [...]

Andrade on Vannevar Bush

David Andrade has a wonderful post on Vannevar Bush:
Hopefully Final Crisis will be as filled with revelations and jaw dropping moments as this piece was. Off the top of my head I related what Vannevar was predicting over 50 years ago to at least five different modern devices of media. For starters, we have the jump [...]

Vannevar Bush Goes Green

Mashable brings us news of Wikia Green that hopes to build
the best resource for citizens of the Earth to learn about the environment and how to live a more sustainable life.

In light of our intro discussion of the memex, how might this be another example of knowledge collection and search? Here’s from the identity page:
Green [...]