Hour on CBC Radio-3
"What will guide this youth-oriented programming? Is it going to be family values, urban stuff or little-kid stuff?" asks Ed. "No one has answered any of these questions."
Chris Crawford on hypertext
"Let me explain that last sentence in real English. Your branchpoints are all treated equally; there is never any bias based on context. You cannot set up a branchpoint that is likely to veer left if the reader has shown a sense of humor, or right if the reader has demonstrated gravitas. Your work cannot truly react to the user." Charles Taylor, in
The Malaise of Modernity (real audio), also discusses this idea but in the context of contemporary culture and philosophy. via
camworld.
Radio Free Martha's Vineyard
Cool. Maybe they can do Clinton-traffic reports while the big guy is here. There are only a half dozen main roads on the Island, and everyone has stories of spending an extra two hours getting home at night, waiting for the Presidential motorcade to pass by. Maybe they'll play
this song (mp3), too. Meanwhile, the good staff at KPFA
stick it to The Man any which way they can.
Philip Greenspun on the $100B mark
"Maybe this will convince my students they shouldn't work so hard to become rich. Because they're probably not going to be richer than Bill Gates, so they might as well do something interesting and valuable to society instead."
More rumours of Apple and Disney getting into bed
I'm sorry, but I just have a problem with a company that sues day care centers for copyright violations and has a dress-code for it's animators.