http://www.informationdesign.org/ Dedicated to the growth and improvement of the information experience industries. en-us plato@xs4all.nl 2012-03-06T15:56:17+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Nano copy design improves holistic UX. "Linking from your content is important - it builds credibility and improves usability, which combined equals more satisfied readers and hopefully return visits. Finding the right material to link to takes time and effort; effort that is wasted if no one bothers to 'Click here'." (Mich Walkden ~ Mich-communication) Writing 2012-03-06T15:56:17+01:00 Hyperlinking used to be called hypertext, hypermedia or hyperspace. "Linking is the essence of the Web. Web professionals must focus primarily on links, rather than the content or technology." (Gerry McGovern) Hypertext 2012-01-16T10:10:17+01:00 Should be part of "The Web That Wasn't". "I was a Hypercard child - though our friendship was brief." (Loper OS)courtey of markbernstein Hypertext 2011-12-05T12:56:07+01:00 "The Web is large and new, it flourishes, It seems to go from strength to strength, and yet we do not know how strong it really is. We must remember that we still could wreck the web." (Mark Bernstein a.k.a. @eastgate) Events 2011-06-20T16:15:24+01:00 "Nelson's ideas, once dismissed as utopian, have become central facts of modern life. But none of this is enough for him. The computing world we know is but a dim shadow of what might have been." (Mark Bernstein) Hypertext 2011-05-11T10:03:03+01:00 "Over a period 30 years hypertext developed and started to mature … until in the early 1990s came the web and so much of hypertext died with its birth … I guess a bit like the way Java all but stiltified programming languages." (Alan Dix) ~ courtesy of markbernstein Hypertext 2010-11-08T10:14:44+01:00 "(...) I gave a keynote address at the Hypertext 2010 conference in Toronto where I found a community somewhat under threat by other web research conferences but nevertheless alive and kicking. The organizers had asked me to consider where the field might have gone wrong and where it might go in the future." (Andrew Dillon ~ ACM Hypertext Conference 2010) Hypertext 2010-09-02T10:43:39+01:00 "The 1st international congress on Web Studies aims at providing a venue for researchers and professionals from different backgrounds for discussion, study, practical demonstrations, sharing, and exchange on new developments and theories regarding the World Wide Web. The congress therefore invites contributions from a heterogeneous set of fields and domains such as: Web systems, computational intelligence, human-computer interaction, digital theory, Web sociology, and well as interactive and digital arts. We also encourage contributions from businesses and organizations." (1st Int'l Congress on Web Studies) - courtesy of markbernstein Hypertext 2010-03-08T11:04:26+01:00 "Pause for a moment and think about the history here. 1993 is 16 years ago as I write this, about the same span of time between Vannevar Bush's groundbreaking 1945 article 'As We May Think' and Nelson's initial work in 1960 on what would become the Xanadu project. As far as software projects go, this one has some serious history." (Micah Dubinko - Micahpedia) - courtesy of markbernstein Classics 2009-11-26T10:43:22+01:00 "The field of spatial hypertext emerged from early efforts to visualize node-and-link hypertexts in the late 1980s. There were a few different systems by the end of the 1990s and an annual Workshop on Spatial Hypertext began in 2001." (Journal of Digital Information 10.3) - courtesy of mbernstein Hypertext 2009-08-11T10:04:21+01:00 "XHTML2, a standard-building project planning a successor to XHTML, has been cancelled." (Mark Bernstein) Hypertext 2009-07-10T11:00:57+01:00 "The focus of this paper is on particular and innovative structures for storing, linking and manipulating information: the ZigZag-structures. In the last years, we worked at the formalization of these structures, retaining that the description of the formal aspects can provide a better understanding of them, and can also stimulate new ideas, projects and research. This work presents our contribution for a deeper discussion on ZigZag-structures." (XanaWorkshop 2009) Hypertext 2009-07-08T10:42:10+01:00 "What drove Tim Berners-Lee to imagine this game-changing model for information sharing, and will its openness be its undoing?" - (Scientific American In-Depth Report) Information design 2009-03-13T15:11:38+01:00 "What does a hyperlink mean? The question itself is problematical. We might be satisfied with the simpler and related question of what a hyperlink is and what a hyperlink does. But in trying to understand what the larger social effects of hyperlink networks are, it is not enough to be able to define a hyperlink, we need to understand its nature, its use, and its social effects." (Alexander Halavais - in Turow T. and Lokman Tsui (eds.) 2008, The Hyperlinked Society)- courtesy of davidweinberger Hypertext 2008-07-29T14:18:07+01:00 High definition video registration - Ted Nelson (the guy who coined the term 'hypertext') gave a 90 mins. speech on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Not on current computing, but based upon his million notes on meaningful connections, such as education, the brothers Grimm, Indo-European languages, the island of Crete, the Greek Gods, Wikipedia as a casino, AIDS, paper imitation 'under glass' and the limitations of the PARC User Interface. (Zepler TV) Hypertext 2008-01-07T23:01:48+01:00