The Weblog for the AboutUs Wiki — “User-generated content” –> “Community-curated works”
august 2008 by bkerr
I agree about 'user generated content' (esp. if spelled 'UGC'), but 'community-curated works' isn't any better. (Not all 'UGC' is made by a community. There aren't really that many communities. Curation is a professional activity of a curator or archivist. We should render obsolete those activities, not borrow the term. The communities (wherever the hell they are) will rise up and say, "BEHOLD MY WORKS YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR!").
aboutus
wiki
word
text
design
user
via:markdilley
august 2008 by bkerr
My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell
february 2008 by bkerr
Free ebook / pay Lulu paperback: "Part memoir and part ethnography, My Tiny Life is about the social life of the online, text-based virtual world LambdaMOO and my own brief encounter with it in the early '90s."
text
world
lambdamoo
book
february 2008 by bkerr
The New Yorker | Onward and Upward with the Arts: Future Reading -- Digitization and its discontents, by Anthony Grafton
computer lit lib text context archive libraries teh-googe informons qnalitas writing printing marginalia scanning edu research retrieval infinite perfected digitized future
november 2007 by bkerr
computer lit lib text context archive libraries teh-googe informons qnalitas writing printing marginalia scanning edu research retrieval infinite perfected digitized future
november 2007 by bkerr
Digital Humanities Quarterly | Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original “Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky
august 2007 by bkerr
Pretty awesome. If you get bored (but you won't) make sure to read the "Photographic Walkthrough" section.
lit
text
games
if
narrative
cartography
mapping
spelunking
adventure
remediation
colossal-cave
clock1
clock2
the-dome-is-unclimbable
via:vielmetti
august 2007 by bkerr
New York Times | The Road to Clarity
type text automotive signage clearview highway-gothic don-meeker fonts image modern-america civic issue design social activism headlights reflection halation roman stone markers distance ford handletter-with-courage uppercase or lowercase nocturnal difficulties sand marbles reflective-sheeting glass-beads laminate tobias-frere-jones interstate sense-of-possibility connectivity british-transport univers helvetica james-montalbano psychology geometry futura hitler post-blackletter modernist tone voice smokey-bear clarendon
august 2007 by bkerr
type text automotive signage clearview highway-gothic don-meeker fonts image modern-america civic issue design social activism headlights reflection halation roman stone markers distance ford handletter-with-courage uppercase or lowercase nocturnal difficulties sand marbles reflective-sheeting glass-beads laminate tobias-frere-jones interstate sense-of-possibility connectivity british-transport univers helvetica james-montalbano psychology geometry futura hitler post-blackletter modernist tone voice smokey-bear clarendon
august 2007 by bkerr
Amazon | Across the Border to Spook Country: An Interview with William Gibson
spook-country william-gibson interview party-like-it's-2007 scenario shadowy-mysterious-characters caper-novel thriller object container macguffin baghdad-batteries erich-von-däniken weapon proposal disbelief ritual literary survival pattern recognition pattern-recognition fiction future imaginary yardstick rate-of-change difference-engine mmowhatever american-civil-war secondlife deserted empty architecture feral-cities mean avatars untethered google everything text word firefox memoir biography bruce-flatware speculative history changes burroughs beat amazon cyberstuff girls-with-bionic-fingernails patina-of-quaintness idoru nodal-point charlie-stross neuromancer victorian vancouver nyc
july 2007 by bkerr
spook-country william-gibson interview party-like-it's-2007 scenario shadowy-mysterious-characters caper-novel thriller object container macguffin baghdad-batteries erich-von-däniken weapon proposal disbelief ritual literary survival pattern recognition pattern-recognition fiction future imaginary yardstick rate-of-change difference-engine mmowhatever american-civil-war secondlife deserted empty architecture feral-cities mean avatars untethered google everything text word firefox memoir biography bruce-flatware speculative history changes burroughs beat amazon cyberstuff girls-with-bionic-fingernails patina-of-quaintness idoru nodal-point charlie-stross neuromancer victorian vancouver nyc
july 2007 by bkerr
Vacuum | Lindsay Marshall on Serendipity
may 2007 by bkerr
"We are not ... looking for tools to record our thoughts or to provide them with structure. What we seek is something that leads us to the unforeseen collisions, the copulations that lead to new thoughts, new connections and yet more new meetings."
writing
storage
work
process
text
correspondence
self
discovery
may 2007 by bkerr
Don Norman | UI Breakthrough-Command Line Interfaces
april 2007 by bkerr
Don Norman's brain wave: "the return to command line interfaces." Mostly a ponderous recapitulation of John Gruber's 2004 "The Location Field Is the New Command Line" but from a desktop-centric perspective.
hype
lies
don-norman-ui-breakthrough
wtf-mate
text
interface
mobile
and
search
interaction
etc
here-come-the-planes
they're-american-planes
via:schollm
april 2007 by bkerr
A2B3 SMS poll: Msgme - Text mgoblue to Msgme (67463)
april 2007 by bkerr
Testing out a mobile service that lets you run a poll, notify groups of events, etc. Two quibbles: the service is chatty (it sent exactly one more message than needed) and the poll selection "B)" turned into a ghastly smiley on my phone.
a2b3
sms
poll
mobile
hivemind
text
ui
april 2007 by bkerr
No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
april 2007 by bkerr
"ok, here i go. I'm going to make this whole website right now on this dry-erase board." Maybe "I ache for storms" for this decade.
lit
text
serial
hypertext
design
writing
marketing
♥
!
micro
everything
april 2007 by bkerr
cpb::softinfo | google groups search terms hack
march 2007 by bkerr
AWESOME: "When making Google Art, you post to Usenet entirely in plain ASCII text ... You then indicate within your post the search queries (and their order) for which users should search Google in order to see the post appear in the proper colors."
google
groups
usenet
text
color
art
search
highlighting
subversion
via:britta
march 2007 by bkerr
Jason Corso | Vi Input Manager Plugin
march 2007 by bkerr
"This bundle patches the Cocoa Text System to add a Vi-like command mode. After entering command-mode (typically, by hitting escape in Vi), ordinary Vi commands can be typed and the text field will be updated accordingly."
mac
text
interface
vi
vim
via:thedaniel
march 2007 by bkerr
Firefox extension -- It's All Text!
march 2007 by bkerr
Firefox extension provides external editor support that actually works (!) on OS X.
firefox
text
editing
extension
mac
textmate
march 2007 by bkerr
words / myth / ampers & virgule | Speed reading vs. typography
february 2007 by bkerr
"What did I learn today? I learned that there is a correlation (strength to be determined) between the ability to read fast and an insensitivity to typographic design considerations."
screen
text
reading
design
february 2007 by bkerr
words / myth / ampers & virgule | Structure, content, and the principle of linguistic relativity
february 2007 by bkerr
"I've done work on clients' documents for a lot of years, and I’ve learned that the word 'document,' like the word 'empty,' means different things to different people."
writing
structure
process
text
hypertext
design
via:vaguery
february 2007 by bkerr
Grand Text Auto | Beavers All
february 2007 by bkerr
Nick Montfort <-- assistant professor of digital media, MIT.
text
hypertext
lit
if
edu
february 2007 by bkerr
RolandHT
january 2007 by bkerr
Background on / justification of the project.
lit
text
hypertext
comparison
interface
song-of-roland
january 2007 by bkerr
Roland's Corpus / RolandHT
january 2007 by bkerr
Load in your XSLT-friendly browser (Firefox or Opera) for a super engaging exploration of Roland in text <--> culture.
lit
text
hypertext
comparison
interface
song-of-roland
xslt
january 2007 by bkerr
Hiveminder - Help - Braindump
january 2007 by bkerr
The braindump semi-structured text format is my favorite thing about hiveminder.
text
interface
micro
markup
january 2007 by bkerr
Little Springs Mobile Pattern Library | Mobile User Interface Design Patterns
january 2007 by bkerr
"A mobile user interface pattern library wiki originating from Chapter 6 of Designing the Mobile User Experience, John Wiley & Sons, 2007."
mobile
text
interface
patterns
design
reference
wiki
via:dorkyspice
january 2007 by bkerr
Interview with Bill Joy
january 2007 by bkerr
"The following interview is taken from the August 1984 issue of Unix Review magazine."
vi
vim
text
editing
interface
unix
january 2007 by bkerr
Hiveminder Mobile
december 2006 by bkerr
This + gradient surplus CSS = Hiveminder widget?
hiveminder
mobile
text
interface
december 2006 by bkerr
indexed
december 2006 by bkerr
The 'daily index card' format.
weblogs
paper
visual
text
design
via:vielmetti
december 2006 by bkerr
URLs Matter in Social Bookmarking
november 2006 by bkerr
Nothing new here, but a decently egregious example.
url
text
interface
via:markdilley
november 2006 by bkerr
Bugzilla | Bug 95067 - line-break should be allowed after hyphens (unless followed by number)
november 2006 by bkerr
Age-old bug everybody is uppity about, c/o recent Zeldman post. Of course, we aren't even talking about soft hyphens -- eep
mozilla
firefox
camino
text
punctuation
display
november 2006 by bkerr
Being the Change | A Modern Undo - Making undo usable beyond the last few changes
november 2006 by bkerr
Author of a Windows text editor, some interesting revision / undo visualization going.
text
editing
recentchanges
visualization
november 2006 by bkerr
First Monday | Limits of self–organization: Peer production and “laws of quality” by Paul Duguid
november 2006 by bkerr
I really liked the analysis of Project Gutenberg's Tristram Shandy e-text.
si658
self
organization
peer-production
networks
wiki
gracenote
text
tristram-shandy
distributed
decision
process
november 2006 by bkerr
Customizing the Cocoa Text System
november 2006 by bkerr
Comprehensive intro to several means for text input munging on OS X. go go go
mac
text
howto
keyboard
ui
preferences
november 2006 by bkerr
CommunityWiki | LocalNames2
october 2006 by bkerr
Talking about a mid-2007 timeframe for next major release.
localnames
text
writing
hypertext
roadmap
october 2006 by bkerr
Daring Fireball | Markdown Syntax Documentation
september 2006 by bkerr
Help! I'm Markdown, but I don't know anything about Local Names (yet)!
markdown
text
markup
syntax
september 2006 by bkerr
43FoldersWiki | Rem2ics
august 2006 by bkerr
.reminders -> awk -> icalendar
remind
ical
text
via:thedaniel
august 2006 by bkerr
thedaniel | Wiivolution in the Metaverse
may 2006 by bkerr
Wii'll find out soon enough!
nintendo
sf
people
text
spaces
navigation
may 2006 by bkerr
456 Berea Street | Styling text fields in Safari
april 2006 by bkerr
"Seems like step by step, one of the most usability-enhancing features of Safari is being removed. The feature I'm thinking of is that Safari does not (yet) allow web authors to freely style form controls with CSS."
mac
browser
safari
text
ui
april 2006 by bkerr
SourceForge.net: playsh
march 2006 by bkerr
"a narrative-driven "object navigation" client, operating primarily on the semantic level" (e.g. cribbing from text adventures. Cool!
python
games
linux
mac
shell
text
ui
via:thedaniel
via:everyone
march 2006 by bkerr
Grand Text Auto | 3 in 7: New IF
march 2006 by bkerr
Games from Emily Short and Graham Nelson.
text
games
lit
if
inform
march 2006 by bkerr
Social Design Notes | Not a Toy
february 2006 by bkerr
"Images of an illustrated guide for children about the dangers of touching or playing around unexploded munitions."
text
design
images
war
february 2006 by bkerr
Meatball Wiki | LinkPattern
february 2006 by bkerr
regex for Meatball's LinkPattern.
diy
text
wiki
⁂
february 2006 by bkerr
zero one zero CD:ep | Trigger Happy
january 2006 by bkerr
Recreation of Space Invaders with a twist.
lit
games
text
metacrap
january 2006 by bkerr
WRT: Writer Response Theory | The word ‘GRUE’ as antagonist
january 2006 by bkerr
Also discusses "3 in Three" and recent interactive fiction releases.
text
games
antagonist
lit
if
zork
grue
january 2006 by bkerr
game-brains.com | Facade - review - Jan 2006
january 2006 by bkerr
Excellent rambly review of Facade.
lit
if
text
games
future
media
entertainment
culture
past
january 2006 by bkerr
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