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
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
Cyber-attacks with real-world consequences – malicious hackers could to sign up victims to receive catalogues from hundreds of thousands of Web sites. Such an attack would not only swamp the target with hundreds of pounds of mail each day, but would cripple the post office that must deal with this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/ Voting for Britain’s favourite reading – probably a book, but the blurb mentions online fiction – so let’s flood them with examples! and BBC voices a project around the country to collect voices from people in particular places, including schools.
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