Monthly Archives: May 2002

It's about *teks-

Posted on May 30, 2002 by Lisa Spangenberg

Ted Nelson via Scripting News: Today’s nightmarish new world is controlled by ‘webmasters’, tekkies unlikely to understand the niceties of text issues and preoccupied with the Web’s exploding alphabet soup of embedded formats. Nelson makes some good points about the … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture and Society | Comments Off

Hypertext and Mackers

Posted on May 29, 2002 by Lisa Spangenberg

Wired has a review of multimedia artist dlsan’s HyperMacbeth. dlsan’s web-based piece of interactive performance art uses phrases from the play and places them against an annoying Flash annimation. He has also translated the Macbeth bits into Italian, and accompanied … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture and Society, English | Comments Off

Real Names

Posted on May 29, 2002 by Lisa Spangenberg

Much to my amusement, I discovered a faculty member who typically located items on the web by opening up Internet Explorer and typing in words or phrases she thought would be “reasonable.” Just the words, no scheme/protocol heading, and no … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

It's About Writing

Posted on May 28, 2002 by Lisa Spangenberg

Dave Winer, in an old Wired interview he doesn’t much like, is quoted as saying: To me, the Web is not about getting rich. It’s about users, designers, stories, and pictures. It’s a writing environment.. I think he’s exactly right. … Continue reading →

Posted in English | Comments Off

SCORM and Modules

Posted on May 27, 2002 by Lisa Spangenberg

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about standards for courseware and CMS allowing “mix and match” development: For the first time, evolving technical standards for software are making it possible for colleges to customize distance-learning programs by easily … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off