March 14, 2003

THE SIMPLE BEAUTY of a text-free Web site: "Revelation 2.0 is a net-art project that strips the text and graphics from the CNN Web site, leaving only blocks of color and photographic images." I love this thing. It illustrates just how alphabetic and text-centric the Web is, first of all. But the best thing about it is you can plug any site you want into the URL. Who knew AOL.com had such high interactive art behind its clutter? Also try Revelation 1.0: the Amnesty International site sans verbiage.


Sean Flannagan chronicles the barbarian onslaught on traditional media from his vantage point in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, USA.






"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
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'The Author is Dead -- Long Live the Author!' by James Morrison (140K)

This is a paper from last year's Media in Transition conference at MIT. The author goes in some interesting directions, comparing the kind of literacy fostered by hypermedia to the "craft literacy" of medieval book-makers. But his conclusion is a bit off the mark. Has this man never heard of Blogger?






A detailed account of King Philip's War.






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