How do we approach skins as a research issue?
The following is from a note I sent Ruth Nichols who is doing her M.Sc. thesis on skins and UI at McMaster.
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Rebecca 2
Rebecca is the daughter of Ivanhoe game that Steve Ramsay and I have been trying to imagine. (See previous Rebecca post.) Here are some more thoughts on features to the game.
– Limiting moves to the output of others
– Algorithmic spirit
– Challenges
– Journals
– Code and Literary Programming
– Literary Moves
– A Game of Collaborative Algorithmic Interpretation
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Tufte on PowerPoint
Edward Tufte: Books – Essay: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint is a great short work on the problems of PowerPoint as a communications aide. How can we do better?
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IATH 10th Anniversary Symposium
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities had a 10th anniversay symposium to which I was invited. The celebration both looked back at the birth of IATH and looked forward. Some excellent talks. I think I rather like such events.
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Rebecca
The Rebecca Game is a child response to the Ivanhoe game. Games like Ivanhoe are interventions and Rebecca, as its given name suggests, is an intervention after Ivanhoe. It is entranced by Ivanhoe. It is a daughter.
These notes are from my conversation with Steve Ramsay.
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Library Facts
Libraries: How They Stack Up by the Online Computer Library Center is a short set of facts about libraries. For example US libraries spend $14 billion a year out of a total of $31 billion spend on books. U.S. libraries circulated four times as many items as Amazon each day.
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E-Books
E-Book Scenarios Updated is an article looking back at predictions about e-books. E-books didn’t take off the way the author expected – we don’t all have readers in our pockets. He does however see some clear trends: Use, Not Read; Aggregations, Not Single Works; Instutional Customers, Not Individuals; and Subscription Pricing, Not Transactional.
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Richard Powers Web Site
Richard Powers: American Novelist a web site about the novelist. Powers was a programmer, among other things, and that shows in novels and short works like Galatea 2.2 and Literary Devices.
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Matt K’s Blog
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s blog is an excellent example of an academic blog such as I want this blog to be. Glad I know him, can’t wait to read his book.
Multimedia, What does a Prof do all week?
What does a Professor do All Day, Anyway? is a short essay by Ed Ayers at the University of Virginia. It needs to be updated to a multimedia version.
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