Archive for June, 2005
Transliteracies: Anne Pascual and Marcus Hauer
0 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass June 23rd, 2005 in search, Researchers, Text Art, Conferences.Continuing a series of posts on Saturday sessions at the Transliteracies 2005 Conference:
Anne Pascual and Marcus Hauer presented on txtkit, a powerful piece of text search and visualization software that first parses the words, paragraphs, and sentences of a text into a database, then adds real-time filtering. It also displays reading history (both personal […]
Transliteracies: George Legrady
0 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass June 22nd, 2005 in search, Researchers, Text Art, Conferences.Continuing a series of posts on Saturday sessions at the Transliteracies 2005 Conference:
George Legrady spent the first half of his talk reviewing of some of his previous work in digital text art design, and the second half talking about Making Visible the Invisible, his project in production for the Seattle Public Library, a catalog display […]
Transliteracies: Christiane Paul
2 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass June 21st, 2005 in Researchers, Text Art, Conferences.Continuing a series of posts on Saturday sessions at the Transliteracies 2005 Conference:
Christiane Paul began with Ted Nelson’s vision of hypertext and then went on a high-speed tour of recent text art, including wikis (criticalware.net), SMS literature (textually.org), book visualization (TextArc), communication visualization (Agonistics), online multimedia narrative (World of Awe), immersive media environments (Energie Passagen) […]
I was able to attend the second day of the UC Santa Barbara Transliteracies Conference 2005 (”Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading”).
The announcement drew an “amen” from GTxA, while The Future of the Book called the conference topic statement: “gracefully defined” - and it was:
How are people today “reading” in […]
WRT is available as a podcast thanks to Talkr.com.
A podcast (ipod + broadcast) is an RSS feed of audio files, for the purpose of subscribing, downloading periodically to a player (such as an ipod), and listening to personalized radio while on the go - TiVo for your ears.
Talkr has loosely joined even more of the […]