I’ve just migrated an essay of mine from 1999 onto vogmae. It’s the first paper where I started to try to put together cinema and hypertext, and came out of the paper I presented at DAC98. So, here it is, Cinematic Paradigms for Hypertext.
I like lists. Bane and joy of my life (give or take a few children and intense joyous relationships). Jeremy, who is embarking on honours this year has compiled an excellent list of “words that should exist but don’t“, which I think ought to have a word too.
Mark is considering an anthology on reading and writing hypertext. Something like this is sorely needed, as the literature has not been collected, and most outside of the very specific hypertext literary community seem to have very poor models for how to read hypertext. So, as Mark’s asking for proposals, if you have something, get in touch with him.
I think we need an anthology of articles about writing (and reading) hypertext. Have favorites? Email me, even if they’re obvious. Have something in your drawer? Email me, too
[From Greco on Hypertext]
This is from Mark Bernstein’s blog:
We’re going to have papers on corporate wikis, and public wikis, and wikipedia, and we’ll have plenty of papers on microformats and social media and community building. But I also want to see some papers on wikiblogs and personal wiki.
And what better place to mention that than this place? I don’t want the conference to go all pedantic about what is or isn’t a wiki; if it’s fast and light and has lots of links and you think that people interested in wikis will be interested in what you’re talking about, then maybe for our purposes it is a wiki.
It’s a very selective conference, but it’s also unusually broad in its interests and unusually engaged in practice and implementation as well as theory.
Papers are due May 3. Want to talk about ideas? Want help with a draft? I’m the guy to see.
So, contact Mark if you think you have something to contribute, by the sounds of things they’re looking for papers that step out of the computer science mould.
Sydney digital doco maker and academic, Chris Caines has just sent out the following:
I’ve just put together a small online doco of sorts about texting culture in the Philippines, that well known world capital of SMS. You may find it of interest for your teaching or research, its published under a Creative Commons attribution license.
Here it is – http://chopyourownwood.com/thumbcandy/
Background and context for the project – http://chopyourownwood.com/thumbcandy/?page_id=2
More background, articles by participants, etc – http://chopyourownwood.com/thumbcandy/?page_id=8
I have a chapter (“Softvideography: Digital Video as Postliterate Practice”) in Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder and Ollie Oviedo‘s >Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. University of Minnesota Press. This collection has been four years in the making (books really are a cautious medium) and two copies arrived fresh off the press this week. A preprint copy of my chapter is available on vogmae.
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