Category Archives: hypertext

A Blog Philosophy

By Craig | Published: July 20, 2007

If a blog can have a philosophy, then the philosophy of this blog is that there is nothing particularly radical about the new. The new may be radical to some, but the new can only be new in the context of the old (or their ‘old’). Some of the old may be threatened by the [...]

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How to create a virtual museum

By Craig | Published: July 5, 2007

A good introductory article from the Relics and Selves Archive produced here at King’s College. This virtual exhibition originated with the idea of deconstructing the rarefied and sanctified museum atmosphere, and thus subvert the order and cataloguing of objects which were important to the consolidation of national imaginaires in 1880s Argentina, Brazil and Chile. The [...]

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Ted Nelson (1965): Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate

By Craig | Published: March 16, 2007

This paper written in 1965 by Ted Nelson is one of the most famous in the history of the computer revolution. It introduces his concept of ‘hypertext’ (or links); the central concept of the web. Also, you may wish to read this 1995 article in Wired magazine called ‘the Curse of Xanadu‘; looking at the [...]

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Viddler goes live

By Craig | Published: February 15, 2007

Viddler is one of my favorite new online video distribution systems; simply because you can tag within the video ( a major leap forward I for a main-stream system). This is the sort of thing I was trying to do all those years ago with Milkbar.com.au. It is a form of ‘hypertextual video’ (or what [...]

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What is Thinking Rock?

By Craig | Published: November 14, 2006

 I really like these projects…and this one is from Australia. It is a way of 'mapping' the things you do or want to do. Hypertext was first imagined by Ted Nelson way back in the 1960s as a way to organise his thoughts.  Thinking Rock is a free software application for collecting and processing your [...]

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Digital Humanities seminar series at King’s College, London

By Craig | Published: October 30, 2006

(from the discussion list, Humanist. This will give you some idea of the projects underway in the Digital Humanities in Europe) This is to announce the forthcoming events of the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for 2006-7, a description of which follows. All events take place at 5.30 pm in Senate House, Malet [...]

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History and Hypertext

By Craig | Published: October 30, 2006

(Mark Bernstein of Eastgate Systems was in Sydney this month talking about ‘History and Hypertext’…what I did my MA on in 1998). SOME THOUGHTS ON HYPERTEXT AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Mark Bernstein At times, hypertext has seemed incompatible with historical narrative, either because non-sequential writing is at odds with understanding cause and effect, or because hypertext [...]

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    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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