Periodic Fable

http://www.web-graduate.com/HTML_CORPORATE/index.html a neat little HTML Basics course from Mike Doyle

More on the impact of spam on business, from the Washington Post. I don’t believe we can just ban spam altogether, to try to filter out every unexpected mail, or email would be useless for contacting people, and that’s what it’s all about. Banning email that cannot be traced back

News: Spyware epidemic rallies call for action We need to be very much more careful about adware and spyware on our systems. It appears also that Realplayer, for example, a very popular audio and video format currently under attack from MP3 and MPEG formats, contains spyware.

http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyrights.html A comprehensive digital copyright notice. A model for others?

Jane Dorner’s Internet Writer Book update site is an interesting place to find links to all sorts of sites of interest to writers (a few too many ebook publishers and dire examples of design, but many worthwhile sites too).

http://www.learningcircuits.com/2003/feb2003/clothier.html THE HYPE ON HYPERSTORIES “The power of hyperstories becomes evident when, at certain intervals, learners can choose to change perspective and watch the same events unfold from another character’s point of view. The concrete events remain the same but the interpretation and feelings are different. What seemed an appropriate

You’re all cordially invited to participate in the on-line discussion forum *DATA QUILTING*, which has been set up in connection to the *Data Quilting* salon during the Dutch Electronic Art’s Festival (DEAF). http://deaf.V2.nl Forum is at: http://dataquilt.v2.nl/v2fo/index.jsp With my track record in the connection between textiles and web technology Web

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/technology/circuits/06next.html Wearable technology is something I crave. Electrotextiles are being invented right now. I loved some textiles I saw demonstrated at the Royal Society of Chemistry some time ago, which were thermo-sensitive. Can’t think why they never caught on! I had a thermoplastic toothbrush too (was supposed to be for

Something to show how blogs work…. I was looking for an example of skins and the ability for users to customise a website’s look. One example, apparently in Flash is at Will Young’s website

Study says boys read – they just don’t read much. There have been lots of studies in the UK too about this. David Clayton was an advocate for boys’ reading. I was recently contacted about a project in the South West to develop boys’ literacy through ICT.