J. Nathan Matias is talking now, and he’s brought a physical hypertext sculpture! Being a savvy blogger, he’s blogged his talk already. The sculpture, The Philadelphia Fullerine, is a geodesic sphere, which is kind of like a huge AD&D dice with sixty […]

OK, I’m up. Before me is a paper on global editability – letting everyone edit pages on the web. After me is a paper on semantic structures in hypertexts. And me, I’m going to talk about feral hypertext. Wild, unruly hypertext that […]

[in progress]Monika Henzinger is the research director of Google Europe, and is giving the keynote at Hypertext 2005, which started this morning in Salzburg.

Hooray! I just got email from Pierre Mounier, whom I didn’t speak to in Lyon, but who was in the audience, and who’s written a paper on literariness as something that can be seen at the level of the internet rather than […]

My presentation for the Digital textuality meeting in Lyon, September 2005 (in progress)

Sarah Mombert and Stephen Shimanek are giving a presentation about their project to digitalise Alexandre Dumas’s newspapers. I wrote a little about the project back in May. Alexandre Dumas directed and/or wrote for eleven newspapers – he was truly into the new […]

[From Claire Belisle’s presentation] “Reading has put an indelible stamp on human cognition.” (Olson, 1994: The World on Paper) The experience of reading has made us aware of our intellectual functions. Thinking is not dealing directly with things but with representations of […]

Terje Hillesund is talking about reading digital texts right now. He’s recapped what we did last time we met, and proposes the projects presented last time can be seen from the side of the readers that will use them, who will be […]

I’m in Lyon, for the second seminar in our Bergen-Lyon exchange of researchers working with Digital Publishing and Reading: Challenges and Processes in Critical Editions and Reading Editions (Publication et lecture numÈriques: dÈfis et processus par l’Èdition critique et les activitÈs de […]

World of Warcraft seems to have exhausted my graphics card. After a couple of hours play, the screen did that thing computers do when they’re really ill, where the image gets all stripey and distorted and you can do nothing. Next time […]