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The Discourse of Diet Blogs
Diets: Private, or public? Is your diet private, or a public act? Diane Greco looks at how blogging affects our desire for self-transformation.
The Wrong Fight
Ed Ward on why the music industry battle against downloads doesn't matter.
Thinking outside the click
The Semantic Web: A postmodern tool for getting at the Truth? A resource for serendipitous discovery? Self-publication? m.c. schraefel asks: Is the Semantic Web the next step in the Web's evolutionary process?
Hypertext Fiction
Finding the story in a networked fiction can, at times, be a daunting task. Stuart Moulthrop, hyperfiction pioneer in both critical theory and creative practice, trains two searchlights on the plot of his new netart, Marginal Effects: A Disorder of Attention.
Tools
When J. Nathan Matias finds out that his manilla accordion file is slightly smaller than infinite, he goes digital. Peek into his Tinderbox for tips and tricks to see how he researches and writes creative nonfiction using hypertext.
Books
Stuart Moulthrop reviews Brendal Laurel's Design Research: Methods and Perspectives
Frank Ricardo reviews David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins, eds., Rethinking Media: The Aesthetics of Transition
Jill Walker reviews Nick Montfort's Twisty Little Passages
Events
The Hypertext Readings at ACM Hypertext '04: The opening of new avenues of writing and reading? Judy Malloy reports.
Back Issues
Tekka 6: Semantic Web, Here be Matches
Tekka 5: Digital Storytelling, Money With Blogs, The Blogosphere in Spain ...
Tekka 4: Lazards Cybercafé, Portuguese Fishing Village, Conference Survival, Life With Master
Tekka 3: Loot from Iraq (part 2), Weblogs Make Them Feel Free, Byzantine Hypertexts, The Possession of Christian Shaw
Tekka 2: Loot from Iraq, The Perils of Personas, Artifactual Hypertext, Fast City
Tekka 1: Hypertext binges, My Friend Hamlet, Blueprints from the Bauhaus
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