Category: hypertext
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Book review: Tim Berners-Lee, This Is for Everyone
There is a particular kind of reading experience that feels less like consuming a book and more like walking alongside someone who helped shape the world you grew up in. Tim Berners-Lee’s memoir This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web, written with journalist Stephen Witt and published by Macmillan in September
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A Blog Philosophy
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
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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What is Thinking Rock?
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
(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