Mark BernsteinMark Bernstein: hypertext researchDeena on Rhetorical Devices- July 7, 2008 Hypertext writer Deena Larsen has built an interesting site for high school students about hypertext writing. It's an ambitious and exciting project. I think this builds in interesting ways on the ongoing Ersinghaus-Gibb dialogues. One could quibble with lots of details. Is all electronic literature ergodic Is the emphasis on sound and graphics really congenial to literature (Someday, a critic should explore the great impact Deena has had on visual hypertext from Marble Springs on, a...http://markbernstein.org/Jul0801/DeenaonRhetoricalDevices.html Obama Poster- July 7, 2008 I really like this Obama poster, created by Shepard Fairey of ObeyGiant:http://markbernstein.org/Jul0801/ObamaPoster.html Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democraxy- July 6, 2008 An intelligent and readable survey of Jane Addams' thought. Jane Addams created Hull House, the most famous and most successful settlement house and long the model for urban reform and renewal throughout the world. After World War II, though, critical details of Addams' thinking were lost, and social services came increasingly to be delivered to clients. Addams never thought of her neighbors as clients; they were friends, they were all invited to dinner, to tea, to whatever...http://markbernstein.org/Jul0801/JaneAddamsandtheDreamofAme.html Independence Day Grill- July 6, 2008 Still too early for corn, but not too soon for serious grilling! cedar planked salmon (marinated in dill, herbs de Provence, lime, and white wine) barbecued baby-back ribs (marinated 150 min in brown sugar, extra cayenne, cloves, garlic, allspice, soy sauce; roasted in foil for 90 minutes; cooled, grilled 30 min over hickory while basting with the boiled marinade) red cabbage, onion, peanuts deer-tongue lettuce salad raspberry fool a chilled bottled of Wrongo Dongo (a Spanish red, and...http://markbernstein.org/Jul0801/IndependenceDayGrill.html More Daybook- July 5, 2008 Responding to but she's a girl, Jack Baty describes his own daybook, also kept with Tinderbox. Baty keeps a separate container for each day, inside a monthly container, and ties everything to an online, collaborative issue-tracking system. Tinderbox handles the overhead of keeping it all organized by automatically naming the containers and assigning prototypes. There&8217;s also a screencast. I&8217;ve been doing this since the beginning of this year and have a total of 1235 entries so far...http://markbernstein.org/Jul0801/MoreDaybook.html Homeland Security- July 4, 2008 Every year on this day, the Boston Globe runs the same editorial. "When in the Course of human events,&8221; it begins, &8220;it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the...http://markbernstein.org/Jul0801/HomelandSecurity.html ACM SIGWeb Interview- July 3, 2008 Claus Atzenbeck interviews me for the Summer issue of the ACM SIGWeb Newsletter. We discussed hypertext research, nobitic tools, and the next big thing in IT technology. Here&8217;s the pdf. CA: What will be the next big thing in IT technology in general MB: The next big thing in IT technology is amost always a buzzword, standing for a concept that everyone knows to be sound or that never has or will exist. So it hardly matters what it will be called; it won't mean much.http://markbernstein.org/Jul0801/ACMSIGWebInterview.html |