Archive for the 'Criticism' Category
Widget-Based Education
4 Comments Published by Mark Marino August 23rd, 2008 in HCTI, Features, News, Software, Education.
Recently I’ve caught a bit of widget fever. Widgets are modules of web content usually wrapped in an iframe that can be added to any web page and are often enabled for use on popular content management systems and social networking sites, such as Blogger and Facebook.
Widgets are to multimedia content what RSS […]
Elit 2.0 (a guide to literary works on social software)
6 Comments Published by Mark Marino July 1st, 2008 in HCTI, Poetics, Features, Text Art, Software.(8/17/08 Update: I’ve updated the list with some of the works from the notes and others people have emailed to me separately).
How do you teach Web 2.0? With elit, of course. This post offers an elit work for each tool.
A number of my colleagues (myself included) attempt to teach courses around Web 2.0 technologies. […]
Charles Deemer wants a hypertheater, ACM HT08
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino June 19th, 2008 in Poetics, Features, Conferences.[This continues the experiment of live blogging conferences, although here I will present some documentation of a workshop and open up this post as a conversation space for those who are attending the conference and far beyond. ACM Hypertext 2008, Pittsburgh]
Charles Deemer presented his work “Changing Key” as an exploration of interactive narratives. […]
Diigo and CommentPress go Head-to-Head (updated)
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino April 28th, 2008 in Researchers, Features, Criticism, Publications, Education.[Updated: 4/28/08…project still in planning stages]
In several postings, WRT has blogged about Diigo social annotation software (1, 2, 3) and CommentPress blogware. Both are about to go head-to-head over Jonathan Zittrain’s book The Future of the Internet–and how to stop it. Zittrain’s book has already been published online with the CommentPress system in […]
Chatbots for Native Tongues: Interview Monica Peters
11 Comments Published by Mark Marino January 27th, 2008 in HCTI, Poetics, Researchers, bots, Features, Education, Interviews.When Alan Turing proposed his test, there was no question that the computers would be tested based on their ability to perform in the same language as the interrogators. As a result, the test was also a bit of an English exam — and indeed many bots fail on the basis of their grammar and, […]