My Books

freedom center

It will be fascinating to see the memorial building at the site of the WTC in New York (sorry, New York Times link, free registration required. You could try username jilltxt, password jilltxt). I’m absurdly proud that it’s designed by Norwegian architectual […]

60 second stories

Pushed for time? Want just a short fix of narrative? Try a 60 second story, a story told in a minute of video. Go on! Click that link! See, it’s our entry for the Contagious Media Showdown, and the entry that gets […]

go offline

Remember that eight-minute movie published in 2014, the one describing what actually happened between 2004 and 2014? And how the New York Times is going to go offline, becoming a newsletter for the intellectual elite and the elderly? They just took the […]

demolish

I’m renovating. The builders came today and started tearing down the walls. Actually it takes a while to literally tear walls down. First you have to tear down the doors, the door frames, the kitchen cupboards, the cords and the skirting boards. […]

site for would be bloggers?

A reader wrote me to ask whether I knew of a website that leads you through starting to blog – you know, explaining how to get started and making it easy to tell the difference between the different systems so you can […]

slowness

I have an imac with an awesome big screen, perfect for reading PDFs, and I have a darling little powerbook with a tiny screen. I’m staying at my mum’s right now, because every wall in my apartment is about to be torn […]

discussing the maybes

We’ve determined the clear accepts and the clear rejects, and are going through the thirty or so maybes. Everyone read a few extra papers last night and this morning and after lunch today, so each paper is fairly represented, in addition to […]

strawberries in the breaks

We’ve discussed about 50-60 papers, now, I think, and I’m getting tired! The Mozart balls (yummy chocolate!) and the conversations in the breaks are revitalising. I just got to hear about all the new things going into George Landow’s Hypertext 3.0 — […]

salzburg

I’m going to Salzburg today, to the program committee meeting for ACM’s Hypertext ’05. Hypertext ’98 was the first conference I ever went to. It was my first time in the US and my first long journey absolutely all alone, knowing nobody. […]