Links

Here are some links that might prove useful as you do work in this course. Please mail me suggestions of links to add.

• Hypertext
  • Hypertext Fiction
• Writing
• Communities
  • MUDs, MOOs, and More
    • Diversity
  • Gender
• Miscellaneous
  • Copyright
  • Art on the Web
  • Class Notes on the Web

Hypertext

• Eastgate Systems, Purveyors of Literary Hypertexts. While Eastgate System's main focus is hypertexts and hypertext software, they also serve as a useful starting point for exploration of issues in hypertext.
• A Network-Based Approach to Text Handling for the Online Scientific Community: Chapter 4: A Taxonomy of Link Types by Randall Trigg. One of the best descriptions of semantic links.
• Literary Machines 93.1 by Ted Nelson (partially available online).
• You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media by Stuart Moulthop.
• No War Machine by Stuart Moulthop.
• Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics by Michael Joyce.

Hypertext Fiction

• The Eastgate Systems Reading Room
• ``On the birthday of the stranger (in memory of John Hawkes)'' by Michael Joyce, from issue 102 of Evergreen Review. Also available in a ``shocked'' version.
• The Iowa Review Web
• Some linear and hypertext fiction sponsored by Eastgate
• Robert Kendall's course
• WordCircuits

Writing

• Grinnell's Writing Lab A great resource for all your questions about writing (in person and online).
• The Grinnell College Writing Forum (More for professors than students, but interesting nonetheless.)
• Writing in College: A Short Guide to College Writing by Joseph M. Williams and Lawrence McEnerny.
• The current week at the University of Chicago's Little Red Schoolhouse (where I got my best training in writing).
• A Ten Minute Tour of Complex Sentences: Phrases, Clauses, and What They Do
• Some links to grammar resources on the Web from Chicago's writing program.
• A Guide to Grammar and Writing
• The Development of the Alphabet (not particularly applicable, but fun nonehteless)
• Dr. Syntax,

Communities

• The HomeNet Project at Carnegie Mellon University
• Peoplink, an NGO using the Web to promote development
• XuViet

MUDs, MOOs, and More

• A short intro at Athena University (AU appears to be a commercial online university).
• Academic and Other Writings about MUDs and MOOs
• An influential paper by a Grinnell Alum (when she was still a student)
• A collection of papers about MUDs and MOOs (including the early Pavel Curtis papers)
  • The list of papers
• MOOSE Crossing: Construction, Community, and Learning in a Networked Virtual World for Kids, Amy Bruckman's Ph.D. dissertation.
• A short introduction to LambdaMoo (with links)
• A summary of LambdaMoo commands (from the LambdaMoo tutorial).
• Some links at Yahoo

Diversity

• American Demographics
  • Diversity in a Virtual World
• Forrester Research
• The Changing Demographics of the Web (in San Jose Mercury News)
• The State of the Net in 1999
• Internet moving toward diversity

Gender

• An interesting site that includes the Maso piece
• A short bibliography on women and technology
• Another bibliography on bodies in cyberspace
• In the Hypertext Web
• Power at the Margins
• GVU's User Surveys

Miscellaneous

• Visible Language, a potential source of interesting information on hypertext and thought.
• ``Hypertext and the Art of Memory'' by Janine Wong and Peter Storkerson
• Feed Magazine
• Openlaw
  • An article about Openlaw
• Vannevar Bush's ``As We May Think''
• Project Gutenberg
  • FTP at UIUC
• The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
• The Oxford Text Archive
• The Electronic Labyrinth
• A Bibliography

Copyright

• United States Code
• Copyright in the Electronic Envirionment
• Copyright Office
  • Local FTP Site
• Copyright and Fair Use site at Stanford.

Art on the Web

• Ada'web at the Walker Art musuem
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Fluxus Indian Museum
• Jon Chenette's list of Art Links

Class Notes on the Web

• A story from the Chronicle
• Deflem's Web Site
  • An article on that site from Chronicle