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Widget-Based Education
2 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)
5 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. […]
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, […]
new hypertext: a little show of hands
0 Comments Published by Mark Marino January 10th, 2008 in HCTI, poetry, hyperfic, Poetics, Features, Text Art, Criticism, Publications, Software.The latest version of Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures (Winter ‘07, 04) hit the webstands recently, and in it you’ll find “a little show of hands,” a short story adaptation excerpted from my adaptive hypertext novella “a show of hands.” The story continues focuses on a Mexican-American family in Los Angeles and the forces that […]
Writing in the Margins
1 Comment Published by Mark Marino December 24th, 2007 in HCTI, hyperfic, Features, Text Art, Fictionality.New River Journal of Digital Writing and Art has just published a stand-alone version of “Marginalia in the Library of Babel.” [See the original WRT description and the “Live” version.] At the same time, the James Joyce Quarterly is preparing to publish my examination of annotation systems for Ulysses. These two events have […]