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The Wrong Fight, II
Will the value of the past keep the artifact of the record alive? Part II of Ed Ward's article on why the music industry's battle against downloads doesn't matter.
Thinking outside the click, II
"..if you don't have the time to hack through a huge set of keyword-matched pages, or if you don't know how to spell what you want, or if you don't know how to express what you want, then the information you may want is effectively invisible. "
Part II of m.c. schraefel's exploration of how to make the invisible visible.
Fiction
The Ashbazu Effect by John G. McDaid:
After the bubble bursts, an unemployed word-hacker weeps at the cultural devastation wreaked by printing. A story of the first new media revolution.
Books
Hello World
Intriguing, exemplary -- and dangerous. Sue Thomas's HELLO WORLD, Greg Beatty writes, "is a memoir and travelogue, a memoir of "a life online."
The Cinema Effect
Adrian Miles finds "Simple descriptions of wonderment, awe, and the proper, which most times become provocations for further theoretical embellishment" in Sean Cubitt's The Cinema Effect.
White graphics
"If you're looking for visual introduction to the breadth of emotional responses white can evoke within graphic design, Finke's book delivers." Brandon Barr reviews Gail Finke's White graphics: the power of white in graphic design.
Events
What do you get when you put a collection of 300 or so really smart, engaged and opinionated individuals in a typical conference setting?
Frank Tansey reports from Bloggercon III
Back Issues
Tekka 7: The Wrong Fight, Thinking outside the click, Diet blogs
Tekka 6: Semantic Web, Here be Matches
Tekka 5: Digital Storytelling, Money With Blogs, The Blogosphere in Spain ...
Tekka 4: Lazards Cybercafé, Portuguese Fishing Village, Conference Survival, Life With Master
Tekka 3: Loot from Iraq (part 2), Weblogs Make Them Feel Free, Byzantine Hypertexts, The Possession of Christian Shaw
Tekka 2: Loot from Iraq, The Perils of Personas, Artifactual Hypertext, Fast City
Tekka 1: Hypertext binges, My Friend Hamlet, Blueprints from the Bauhaus
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