December 2006
A List Apart: Primer
by 3 otherstips on a variety of aspects of web sites for new designers and web site owners
Edward Tufte home site
by 4 otherslots here from a major figure in information graphics; especially interesting are many entries in section, "Ask E.T."
November 2006
Imagining the Internet
by 1 otherpopular site from Pew Internet Project; allows people to make predictions, read predictions from the 90s; nice for kids
Video History Project: Resources
information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment
The Digital Journalist November 2006 Issue Contents
monthly online magazine; wonderful examples of documentary photography
The Eye Page
an exploration of eye structures in nature
Center for History and New Media
by 1 otherextensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center
Zone-Tour : Database of Urban Exploration
by 2 otherslook at ordinarily unseen places: technical galleries, attics, construction places, roofs, all those "No Entry" places that form a sort of parallel deserted town
Newest Webcams
by 12 othersrandom live webcams from the net, a new kind of documentary media, mostly surveillance
BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books (book swap and book exchange and book trade)
by 4 otherssend in your books and request and get others' used books
October 2006
STORYTRON - Interactive Storytelling
Software 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.
Tracking Down Educators that Use Photo Sharing (flickr) | Teaching Hacks.com
aiding social networking and sharing of resources for using photography in education
howstuffismadeblog
manufacturing processes, labor conditions, and environmental issues involved in the production of contemporary goods
architechtural, music, media blog
by 2 otherswell written; of use to media people, especially for mise en scene, ways of attending to space
Urban Communication
urban life, communication, and technology
2006 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
06 winners, with photos and explanations in a slide show
Guardian Unlimited | Science | DNA discovery may crack old murder cases
news article that gives new plot device to use in crime tv scripts or detective films; new way to interpret old or poor quality DNA samles
atomic blast photos
photos of an atomic test taken at one-millionth of a second
net critique ยป Theses on New Media and the City
technology from a progressive viewpoint
Martin Irvine, Georgetown University
useful website of communication, culture, and technology professor; many links to courses,lectures, slideshows and essays on art, visual culture, media theory
WIRED 3.02: "Viruses Are Good for You" by Julian Dibbell
a theory of the benefits of computer viruses
July 2006
Local Projects
designers of the installations for many important storytelling projects, most notably the StoryCorps booth; "an award-winning design studio that seeks to tell stories in public spaces, museums, and over the internet, often simultaneously."
