Cathy Marshall is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley; she has been at Microsoft for the last nine years. Cathy has long worked in the disciplinary interstices of computer science, information science, and the humanities, with occasional collaborations in the arts and the sciences. Her interests include digital archiving and long-term retrieval; how people use and share encountered information; how people read, annotate, navigate through, and interact with eBooks and other electronic publications; and spatial hypertext. She holds provocative views on topics like the Semantic Web and social tagging. Before coming to Microsoft, she was a long-time member of the research staff at Xerox PARC. She has delivered keynotes at WWW, Hypertext, Usenix FAST, CNI, VALA, ACH-ALLC, and a variety of other CS and LIS venues.

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By Rudolf Ammann
Presented at Hypertext 2009
30 June 2009, Torino, Italy

Working from the online archival record, this paper aims to reconstruct the emergence at Jorn Barger’s initiative of the weblog community from a predecessor known as the NewsPage Network.

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" * Bulleted list * Occasional use of bold to prevent skimming * Short sentence fragments * Explanatory subheads * No puns * Did I mention lists? What Is This Article About? For the past month, I've been away from the computer screen. Now I'm back reading on it many hours a day. Which got me thinking: How do we read online?"

"* The Dream of the Rood * The Battle of Maldon * The Wanderer * The Wife's Lament * Beowulf: The Fight with Grendel * Beowulf: The Lament of the Last Survivor * Beowulf: Beowulf's Funeral * Ælfric's Life of St Edmund * Bede's account of the poet Cædmon * New Facebook Group: Old English"

"This is a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007. I considered releasing it as an "eternal beta" in true Web 2.0 style, but decided to let it stand as is and start working on future projects. Many of my future videos will address the last 30 seconds of this video (the "rethink ..." part). Thank you all for the helpful comments on the earlier draft. It has been a great experience to connect with so many people interested in similar issues. Once again, there are higher quality versions available for download: Windows Media File (55 MB): http://www.mediafire.com/?22l2vyomimv Quicktime File (96 MB): http://www.mediafire.com/?ammm122k1ma Mojiti Version (for comments, translations, etc.): http://mojiti.com/kan/2743/5984 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything. I received many more positive comments than negative about the song choice (great work Deus!), but if you are one of those who does not like the song just download the video and change the audio track to your liking. The video was created by me (Michael Wesch), working alone from my house in St. George, Kansas. I used CamStudio for the screen captures and Sony Vegas for the panning/cropping/zooming animations. Someday I might make a video tutorial for those who are interested."

I got this from the Bates College Library. It is Mac only.

"Written specifically to be read on the computer, _afternoon_ is a branching, multi-linear narrative about a man, his estranged wife and child, and a bizarre car accident that may or may not have included all of the above. If that sounds too scary, be assured that the technicalities are simple - you read by clicking on links, just like on the Web. Think of Cortazar, minus all that paper. And then dig right in - _afternoon_ is a lyrical, experimental landmark in the history of writing."

"Considering I found this book at one of the 80% publishers list price sales, it proved his point that books are merely fleeting objects soon to be replaced. At most time sthe book is fairly straightforward, but during some of interstitials, the paragraphs required multiple readings to understand what he was saying. I hope to get some mileage out of his argument on the Highschool poliy debate topic this year:eduation. I guess I should probably read Landow now too."

" Robot Wisdom auxiliary Longer posts by Jorn Barger to supplement the Robot Wisdom link blog. 19 July 2007 Links On The MF-ing Page: a hypertext abc as we observe the 10th anniversary of 'blogging' and debate the precise definition of that term i'll go on record as claiming not only that rwwl was the 1st proper weblog but that it's still the only proper weblog an early product of the only proper hypertext lab on the web because properly designed experiments (here, experiments with links) need to minimise independent variables (here, like columns and styles) and pare down each design prototype to its barest essentials how best to * craft linkable pages * craft links to these pages [more] * arrange links on a page * embed links in prose * accommodate prose to embedded links it seems wholly bizarre to me ten years on that web trendsetters have barely begun these experiments obsessing instead on standards stylesheets and hypothetical semantic 'structures' some abcs: * one chapter per page * escape-links at the start of each page for lost visitors * related links at the end of each page for happy campers * similar links gouped, with major differences emphasized * linktext that minimizes disruption while reading (eg isolated in 'text buttons' at the end of a sentence) * linktext that tries to manage readers' expectations (eg text buttons that specify the filetype, the site, or special warnings) * page metatdata in the headers (not embedded) * pages that thoroughly massage all raw search results on some given topic * timelines or best-first as better organising principles than alphabetical . Labels: blogs, interface posted by Jorn at 8:07 AM << Home About Me My Photo Name: Jorn Barger View my complete profile Previous Posts * Jesus B * Robot Jenny lyrics * Tagportal: worldtree * Tag says it all * July 2007 links * Bremer bales * 50 Joycean conjectures annotated * A key to "Ravelstein" * The canonical Wallace Stevens * Action hypertext and the beehive paradigm Powered by Blogger "

"[Robot Wisdom home page] HyperTerrorist's Secret Lab for Hypertext Readability Theory Jorn Barger July 1999 (updated Sept 1999) This section of my website is a terrible mess. Boiled down to a sentence, my theory of Web design is "Be as considerate as possible, recognizing that everybody's browser is set differently." If you just want tips on designing your own website, start with my (good and bad) design awards, and this added-value theory, then this older checklist (dating from back when I used the text-only browser 'lynx'), and this longer compilation of ideas. (There's also an even older version of this overview.) There's also very old critiques of three sites: the Yale style manual, a Joyce site, and an AI site. Some model pages that embody hypertext theories: my one-layer Joyce-portal, the site map/tour, a series of author pages (eg Iris Murdoch) that try to integrate all the existing Web resources for each author, a dull page that uses a #-toc at the top to draw people in, my weblog that tries to make it as convenient as possible to keep up with Web news (and the net.literate portal pages where the best of these are sorted and archived), and most recently an ambitious attempt to make Finnegans Wake comprehensible via discreet hypertext theory. From a more theoretical perspective, hypertext research is in a shockingly confused state. Jakob Nielsen offers lots of excellent advice, but mixes in absurd prejudices as well, in particular claiming that many short pages are better than a single long one, a view that a simple poll dramatically disproves. Almost all the web design zines use a maximally obnoxious multipage format. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, has become a wretched drag on its evolution, advocating a boondoggle called XML. My alternative is browsers that do more parsing, especially respecting normal etext conventions. Javascript bookmarklets can do some kinds of parsing, too. For general rightheadedness about design and the Net, I admire Philip Greenspun, Lou Rosenfeld, and Alan Cooper. I have two theoretical/technical pieces on integrating hypertext theory with cognitive science: a 2k intro, and a later 9k approach. My recent theoretical posts to alt.hypertext and comp.human-factors. This timeline of hypertext has been very well received. Web-design pages: main : academia : info-design : adding value : resource-pages : lessons-learned : best-worst : plugging leaks Special topics: surfing-skills : url-hacking : open content : semantics : pagelength : linktext : startpages : bookmarklets : weblogging : colors : autobiographical pages : thumbnail-graphics : web-video : timeline of hypertext Anti-XML/W3C/etc: structure-myth : page-parsing : firstcut-parser : html-history : semantic web Design prototypes: topical portal : dense-content faq : annotated lit : random-access lit-summary : poetry sampler : gossipy history : author-resources : hyperlinked-timeline : horizontal-timeslice : web-dossier Website-resource pages: RobotWisdom.com : Altavista.com : 1911encyclopedia.com : Google.com : IMDb.com : Perseus.org : Salon.com : Yahoo.com Older stuff: design-lab : design-checklist : HyperTerrorist : design-theory : design cog-sci Search this site Search full Web Before you leave this site: Be sure you've checked out Jorn's weblog which offers daily updates on the best of the Web-- news etc, plus new pages on this site. See also the overview of the hundreds of pages of original content offered here, and the offer for a printed version of the site. Hosting provided by instinct.org. Content may be copied under Open Web Content License. "