Hypertext means more than just text with a bunch of links in it Hypertext is something of a neglected subject these days. Everyone is talking about the Web, but nobody is talking about the class of…

The internet — a fragile construction of hardware, software, standards and databases — is run by an ever-expanding range of private and public actors constrained only by voluntary protocols and subject to political pressure. The authors describe four emerging views of how to govern the internet, each playing a geopolitical role and championed at the national level: Silicon Valley’s open internet, Brussels’ bourgeois internet, Beijing’s authoritarian internet and DC’s commercial internet. The competition to establish which internet prevails is likely to be strong, and not always focused on win-wins.

30 years on, SEO and social media silos have replaced pre-web visions of linking

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By analysing a series of exhibition projects responding to central changes in web technology since its public unveiling (1991), this study identifies a historical trajectory for discussing the evolution of curating on the web. Such evolution highlights how curators have devised exhibition models that operate as platforms for not only displaying art specific to the web, but also for producing and disseminating it in a way that responds to the developments of web technology—and its socio-cultural and economic impact. With the massification of web tools, in fact, these platforms have generated distributed systems of artistic production free from the physical and conceptual limitations of the gallery and museum space. They have not only become spaces for displaying art, but also platforms that nurture its production, different modes of audience engagement and critique the canons of the institutionalised art world. Originating from the desire to reduce the historical fragmentation of this field of work and its partial mapping, this study follows a periodisation that starts from the early internet, with its BBS-enabled platforms such as ARTEX (1980), to introduce the 1990s experimentations with the web browser and the developments of projects like äda’web (1995). It then dives into the Web 2.0 when, with the platformisation of the technology, curators developed an array of approaches for adopting existing web services, as in the instances of CuratingYouTube (2007–present) and #exstrange (2017). Lastly, it outlines the trends of today’s web, which saw the birth of projects like the blockchain-enabled cointemporary (2014), to then draw conclusions about the relevance of this historical trajectory in the field of curatorial studies and the production of web-based and digital art.

It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.

The study underlines the 'dominance of the few' rule on social media, and its broader impacts.

Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online.

"Hokay. So. Here's the earth..." If you were on the Internet in the early aughts, you probably already know exactly where the above sentence comes from. It's the first line from "The End of the World," the zany 12-year-old animation that depicts an…

Ruling out the icecaps melting, a meteor becoming crashed into us, the ozone layer leaving, and the Sun exploding, we're definitely going to blow ourselves up. H'okay. So basically we've got China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, The UK, and us, with nukes. We've got about 2600 more than anybody else. Whatever. H'anyway.

15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps.I still use it everyday.Last week, the team dramatically changed the map’s visual design.I don’t love it. It feels colder, less accurate and less human.But more importantly, they missed a key opportunity to… pic.twitter.com/HMcpKiOEdr— Elizabeth Laraki (@elizlaraki) November 22, 2023

A list of things you're allowed to do that you thought you couldn't, or didn't even know you could.

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

macOS utility to lock the keyboard for easy cleaning. - kfv/keylock: macOS utility to lock the keyboard for easy cleaning.

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A New Zealand libertarian blog about Austrian economics, organic architecture, romantic realist art, Ayn Rand, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Von Mises

After a year of observation, experimentation, and testing, we may have found a careful response to the challenges we face with AI.

Everyone is tired of touch screens.

Campaign Supported by Community Marketing and Fundraising Aims to Raise Awareness of Mozilla Firefox MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - December 15th, 2004 - The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to ...

The search engine has made up so much of our online experience for so long that it can be hard to imagine something better.

Perhaps my longest post to date, in which I talk at length about using micro.blog and what I hope to do with it.