Loot
War, media, cultural memory, and an meeting with Salam Pax.
Scenarios
Artifactual
Small
Fast City
Books
Boxing Digital Art: a review of Interfictions by Roberto Simanowski
Narrative as Virtual Reality by Marie-Laure Ryan
Spinning The Semantic Web leads Aaron Swartz to consider changing fields
Stefan Mumaw's Simple: Web Sites tries to capture the design process by including annotated sketches and designer doodles preserved from client meetings. They're sometimes lovely and often hilarious
Tools
Tinder: Tekka, part 2 takes a closer look at using Tinderbox to create Tekka.
Biz Stone takes iPhoto for a spin when covering a campus event, and reminds himself not to make sudden moves around the secret service.
Blueprint
Web communities have become the slums of cyberspace. Mark Bernstein looks at three books that suggest architectures of renewal.
New Media
Audio hypertext fiction? Anja Rau tries Gerne zuschauen, an audio CD by Anne Bösenberg and Hanna Linn Wiegel. It's a bit of a trial…
"What I want to know is, what did the designers at Cornered Rat want to tell us when they created WW2 Online?" Mark Bernstein spends a sleepless night tramping through the fields of Belgium and files this report.
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