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Ted Nelson, Xanadu, and “The Completely New System of Media”

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

The avatar of new media, Ted Nelson, is always worthy of (re)consideration. YouTube brings his great project Xanadu to life (in a manner of speaking) with these brief demos.

Xanadu Spaces

ZigZag Data Structures

For the very tortured history of Xanadu, check out Gary Wolf’s article in the June 1995 issue of Wired magazine. And if you’re interested in what starts the Nelson story, checkout the great Computer Lib/Dream Machines.

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An Inferface of One’s Own

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Interesting NYT article on an innovate word processing program:

“… our redeemer is Scrivener, the independently produced word-processing program of the aspiring novelist Keith Blount, a Londoner who taught himself code and graphic design and marketing, just to create a software that jibes with the way writers think.”

Here’s the article.

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