Ubiscribe 0.9 PoD Mai 2006

Daily blogging for ours and no end right now. Due to the current participation of Ubiscribe. Parallel blogging - so many entries i post on the Ubiscribe PoD serie will also appear here in this Blog. Ubiscribe PoD - An Introduction: This is a collaborative editorial wiki, both a publication and working environment in its own right, and at the service of the production of an ongoing series of Ubiscribe print-on-demand and otherly formated-to-the-occasion publications. The first issue, PoD Ubiscribe 0.9, will be launched on May 21, 2006 from 15:00 CET during a "book weekend" at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht NL. Ubiscribe Net

Ubiscribe PoD series: Ubiscribe 0.9 is a publication named after and generated from research conducted in the context of this particular strand at the Jan van Eyck Academie design department. It inquires into the conditions for personal and pervasive publishing and participatory media in today's cultural production. As an ongoing experiment in open collaborative writing and editing, for its publication it uses networked writing and editing tools as well as print-on-demand reproduction technology, for occasional back-up and review copies and as a just-in-time public outlet. Some of Ubiscribe's earlier manifestations include the 2004 Personal Publishing Pandemonium meeting; 2004 Wild Edit meetings; the setting up of a database in and as an exploration of Devonthink CMS software, also 2004, and a consequent Stand-up Publishing consultation; Thinktank gatherings, 2006. Its research inspired two papers in the context of the 'Tomorrow Book' research strand, Ubibook and Ubibook Mark-up, in 2004-05. Ubiscribe 0.9 Tags

Contributing editors of Ubiscribe 0.9 are Arie Altena, Sandra Fauconnier, Claudia Hardi, Jouke Kleerebezem and Inga Zimprich.

Zigzag Software

Zigzag Logo
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Zigzag a new Software for a new computer univers by Ted Nelson. Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937) is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the term "hypertext" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also invented the words hypermedia, transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and teledildonics. The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people. His motto is: A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. Nelson founded Project Xanadu in 1960 with the goal of creating a computer network with a simple user interface. The effort is documented in his 1974 books Computer Lib and Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines. Much of his adult life has been devoted to working on Xanadu and advocating it. The Xanadu project itself failed to flourish, for a variety of reasons which are disputed. Journalist Gary Wolf published an unflattering history of Nelson and Xanadu in the June, 1995 issue of Wired magazine. Nelson expressed his disgust on his Web site and threatened to sue "Gory Jackal."

Some aspects of its vision are in the process of being fulfilled by Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web. The Web owes much of its inspiration to Xanadu, but Nelson dislikes the World Wide Web, XML and all embedded markup, and regards Berners-Lee's work as a gross over-simplification of his own work: HTML is precisely what we were trying to prevent - ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management. – Ted Nelson Nelson is working on a new information structure, ZigZag, which is described on the Xanadu project website, which also hosts two versions of the Xanadu code. He is currently a philosopher and visiting professor at Oxford University working in the fields of information, computers, and human-machine interfaces.

Ted Nelson's Homepage
Zig Zag
Ted Nelson Entry on Wikipedia

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
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"Shurely you're joking Mr Feynman - Adventures of a curious character" Copyright by Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton, 1985. First published by W.W. Norton & Company Inc. 1985. Vintage The Random House Group Limited, 1992. ISBN 009917331X. Preface: "The stories in this book were collected intermittently and informally during seven years of very enjoyable drumming with RichardFeynman. I have found each story by itself to be amusing, and the collection taken together to be amazing: That one person could have so many wonderfully crazy things happen to him in one life is sometimes hard to believe. That one person could invent so much inocent mischief in one life is surely an inspiration." Ralph Leighton.

A History of Online Services 1963 - 1976

A History of Online Services 1963 - 1976
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A History of Online Information Services 1963 - 1976. Charles P. Bourne and Trudii Bellardo Hahn. Copyright 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ISBN 0-262-02538-8. "Every field of history has a basic need for a detailed chronology of what happened. This book provides a rich narrative of the early development of online information retrieval systems and services, from 1963 - 1976."