October 2006
STORYTRON - Interactive Storytelling
by jlesageSoftware for something between a game and literary hypertext. "Storytronics uses Verbs to define what may happen in interactive storytelling. Each Verb represents one possible dramatic action, like a kiss, a demand, or an advice." Looks like fun.
Welcome to the Information Processing Content Web Site
by jlesagevery useful lesson plans for Internet theory and use, digital photograph, desktop publishing
Department of Anthropology
by jlesageThe University of Alabama's Anthropology Department has links to course materials, lectures, resources developed by students, and outside links. A model for Internet academic resources institutionally.
"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink
by jlesageWe live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.
Overview of a Distributed Aesthetics workshop
by jlesageconsidering a new kind of network or network-assisted art, such as Internet or cell phone facilitated performances, on or offline; using locative media; Creative Commons, etc. An older idea was Internet Art.
Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1
by jlesage & 10 others2006, tools for teachers and students
September 2006
Wired News: Web 2.0 Winners and Losers
by jlesagesept 06, one person's take on what's useful or irritating; I am also turned off by terrible graphic design on a web site.
August 2006
craigbellamy.net
by jlesageblog by media teacher "profiling some of the web2.0 developments--in a cultural, political and social sense"
ANONYMIZER - INTERNET PRIVACY & SECURITY SOLUTIONS
by jlesage & 5 othersPC software that lets you surf anonymously. High school students can hide they are on MySpace at school; workers can browse the Internet for personal use; and folks in China can hide their tracks.