The Unusable Web on Asterisk http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archives/unusable_web.php Perhaps blogs ARE where the best writing is at these days.
Don’t know how I missed this a month ago – but thank goodness there is someone fighting against the worst features of the new Net http://money.guardian.co.uk/scamsandfraud/story/0,13802,1086308,00.html
Principles of copywriting for the web http://www.provenanceunknown.com/edit/basics.html And of course, Crawford Kilian’s blog http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/dailysucker/ Traditionally bad web design Association of Online Publishers’ Awards http://www.ukaop.org.uk/awards/index.shtml The Future of Online Journalism http://archives.cjr.org/year/97/4/online.asp Old but with some still relevant questions about what new media can do that old media can’t!
http://www.wpdfd.com/ An interesting looking resource on web design
The impact of digital games in education Looks like the digital games industry are trying to hijack the educational moral ground. Don’t they make enough money by straight games sales? I’ve just come up against a games-culture-inspired story written by a child that it’s impossible to put on an international
Some interesting multimedia :) http://www.pitaru.com/ Creative movement and game-like art. Tom Scarpino http://www.mixedmediaonline.com/pupupges/hyprtxt.htm The Web can be used for so much more than just displaying traditional looking (linear) stories and poems. Poetry animated in Flash and Shockwave can be a pleasing revelation. I enjoy reading Flash poetry such as that
Blogs in education
This paper discusses different questions of weblogs in context of higher education. It is focussing on three loosely coupled questions: 1. How can the weblog format improve discourse? 2. How it can weblogs support teaching at universities? 3. What are the institutional benefits of weblogs in universities?
Received recently
We’d like to announce the beginning of a new group blog, driven by Michael Mateas, Nick Montfort, Stuart Moulthrop, Andrew Stern and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. grandtextauto is about computer mediated and computer generated works of many forms, including interactive fiction, net.art, electronic poetry, interactive drama, hypertext fiction, computer games of all
Spam again
BBC NEWS | Technology | Where spam comes from It’s terribly depressing to find out how much spam there is – especially the “brute force” attacks mentioned in this report. There seems to be no way to allow a child to have a personal email address and be sure it