A Hypertext Journal

'A Hypertext Journal' - the WWW as Live Interface by Nina Pope & Karen J Guthrie was a prescient piece of work by two artists who travelled to the highlands of Scotland, "... equipped with laptops, modems a digital camera, video and audio equipment."

The journals of Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, who travelled round Scotland in 1773, formed a kernel of an idea.

The interactions, the record of the journey and the "blogging" of everything were novel in 1996. In 2009, Dopplr, Twitter and FLICKR perform the same tasks. To take part, Internet Relay Chat sessions were arranged (in other words, a series of "tweets" were exchanged)....


As Peter Ride points out "...through their open dialogue with the artists, the audience become participants, there is no presumption that the audience is in a position to control the direction of the project."

The Web, version 2.0, already existed in 1996, well at least Somewhere....

Den Tod erlebt man nicht.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark... 
                     near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time....
......Like tears in rain. Time to die"

Roy Batty in Blade Runner

Did Roy Batty know the moment of his death?

A new shorthand for blip.fm

A new shorthand has emerged at blip.fm

When a user re-blips another (say user Fred112233) then a user can add the following: de @Fred112233 where the "de" means from that user. It also means thanks!

Numbers, in Fives and a one-time pad.

Just been listening to a few minutes of recordings from The Conet Project....

The groups of five numbers are messages to spies in the field, transmitted on short wave frequencies. The message could only be revealed using the agent's one-time pad.

And hence are now meaningless....

Russell Brand

Russell
Originally uploaded by Russell Brand on BBC Radio 2.

A former Radio 2 presenter....

Tags for a new generation.

Been this thinking about tags again. Hashtags are beginning, like other tag aggregation tools, to show trends. A tag language may evolve, along the lines of Dynamically defined tags for annotation at the description level

Fifteen minutes of fame

"In the future, everyone will edit Wikipedia for 15 minutes."