Sometimes it takes a look in the rearview mirror to remind ourselves that a medium as familiar to us as the printed book was once some new-fangled and rather disruptive technology. Take a look at the video below and you’ll see a very funny take on a technical support call for the book 1.0.
If the embedded video doesn’t work for you, you can view it directly from YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
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Jeff
I haven’t had a chance to watch the full movie version of Hyperland closely yet (available as of today on Google Video), but what I’ve seen convinces me that this will be a nice complement to our study of hypertext later on in the semester for ETEC540. It covers much of the same history we will be reading — Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson, Xanadu, the Media Lab… And based on previous iterations of the course, I’m willing to wager we have at least a couple of rabid Douglas Adams fans in our cohort.
Gestating off-screen, adding an ironic sheen to the proceedings, is the yet-to-be-realized World Wide Web, which would both embody and explode the vision of hypertext under consideration.
Update: Oook rightfully points to Hyperland’s Wikipedia entry for useful context.
(Via Boing Boing. Cross-posted to Abject Learning.)
We’ll be looking at the development of technologies for Writing in Module 3, but you might be happy to know that you are not required to use this particular keyboard to compose your thoughts in the course. I wonder how such an input device would change the type of conversations we’d have the strength to write?!
http://www.taylorhokanson.com/work/sledge/page1.html
Blogs, A Primer by Barclay Barrios is an excellent hypertext article appearing in the Spring 2005 online version of Computers and Composition. It addresses two main themes, one is the nature of online writing and scholarship, and the second in a guide to blogs for writing teachers.
While there is a lot of info about blogs out there, I liked this article for its one-stop shoppingness (and it’s lovely wallpaper!)
– Bonnie
Ever worry about how secure your data is sitting on optical or magnetic media, or whether or not 10 years from now, you’ll be able to listen to your “Earth, Wind and Fire” mp3 rips when that format no longer exists?
Perhaps we should all worry about these things a little bit. Check out this article from the Sydney Morning Herald. I place my bets on clay tablets, myself.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/the-digital-dark-age/2005/09/22/1126982184206.html
And why not?
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Only 8 bits/sec, but that makes the file 135 kb. Bear in mind this is just fun … in fact I played the lead before I added the other guitar. At a better rate the goof on the voice is more interesting, but you can’t have everything.
This will play in windows media player. Don’t know about Apfel products, or Mozilla plug-ins.
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Have a listen to this audioblog post (620 KB) and contribute an audio comment of your own to the discussion, if you like.
I’m blogging this from Flickr where I posted a extispicious generated image of my del.icis.us tags. I discovered that flickr photo notes are a convenient way to annotate the sometimes cryptic flickr tags. It is very interesting how all these tools work together to form an ecology of emergent possibilities.
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