| Arun-Kumar Tripathi on Sun, 9 Apr 2000 20:16:41 +0200 (CEST) |
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Greetings NetTimers, ((Notes from Arun Tripathi: The review "*Forward Anywhere* by Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall" --written by Prof. Stuart Moulthrop is available WHERE TO? at: <http://www.eastgate.com/reviews/Moulthrop.html> ** some excerpts from the review ** "Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall know things about hypertext that can only come from very strong engagement." "Forward Anywhere brilliantly demonstrates the hypertexts -are structured in more dimensions than the line." Prof. Moulthrop makes hypertexts and teaches design for electronic environments. Convergence -a Journal of Research into New Media Technologies is available at: <http://www.luton.ac.uk/Convergence/> Soul Moulthrop is also the author of Victory Garden <http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/VictoryGarden.html> Prof. Janet Murray (author of Hamlet On The Holodeck) has written about the _Victory Garden_ as, "..indispensible. No one has taken on the hard questions about hypertext and fiction or played so intransigently with the myriad possibilities.." _Victory Garden_ was created using Storyspace. An excerpt from _Victory Garden_ has been adpated for reading on the Web at: <http://www.eastgate.com/VG/VGStart.html> Storyspace -a hypertext tool for writers and readers <http//www.eastgate.com/Storyspace.html> Advance Praise for NEW WEB FICTION "Friday's Big Meeting" <http://www.tank20.com/fbm/index.html> and <http://www.tank20.com/v4/lead.html> Sincerely Arun Tripathi Cyberexplorer Net Messenger)) ====================================================================== Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 13:02:35 -0400 From: "Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc." <bernstein@eastgate.com> [....] - Share your Storyspace stories - Women at the Millennium features _Forward Anywhere_ - New in HypertextNOW: Scrolling with Rob Wittig - DUST OR MAGIC: Secrets of Successful Multimedia Design Share your Storyspace Stories ----------------------------- Do you use Storyspace, Eastgate's popular hypertext writing tool? We'd like to hear your stories about Storyspace. What does Storyspace mean to you? How have you used it? We're looking for anecdotes that will help us plan future Storyspace releases and help us explain Storyspace to new writers. We're interested in everyday experiences as well as unusual applications. Our favorite anecdotes, selected by Eastgate's dedicated staff, will win free hypertexts and other special prizes. Won't you help? Send your stories to: Please mailto: <storyspace@eastgate.com> Women at the Millennium features FORWARD ANYWHERE ------------------------------------------------- Eastgate salutes UC Berkeley's _Women at the Millennium_ mail art exhibition, which includes work from hundreds of mail artists and features FORWARD ANYWHERE, the email-based hypertext by Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall. Despite poor weather and fire alarms, over a hundred people attended the opening. "Forward Anywhere demonstrates a remarkable commitment to exploration and experiment, a futurity that moves through the past but is not doomed to repetition. This is a work that moves and moves with us, an *open* work in the best sense." -- Stuart Moulthrop, _Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies_ Order your copy of FORWARD ANYWHERE: <http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/ForwardAnywhere.html> _Forward Anywhere_ by Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall Eastgate Systems ISBN 1-884511-25-2 For Macintosh or Windows 95/98/NT $19.95 HypertextNOW: Scrolling with Rob Wittig --------------------------------------- In the new HypertextNOW, Diane Greco interviews Rob Wittig, director of the Chicago literary studio TANK20. Among Tank20's best-known projects was last year's Web performance, "The Fall of the Site of Marsha." "I'm fond of saying that the copy machine is STILL the most important literary technology of our century." <http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/Wittig.html> Dust Or Magic: Secrets Of Successful Multimedia Design ------------------------------------------------------ In this new volume, Bob Hughes offers a conceptual framework and plenty of practical advice for creatively tackling projects in multimedia design. Drawing on his extensive and varied experience in multimedia development, Hughes demonstrates the importance of emotions, play, gesture, and closely-coupled media in producing intense, immersive multimedia. Of particular interest are Hughes' case studies and profiles; these make a wonderfully candid introduction to multimedia classics and to their creators. Hughes' analyses, examples, and historical insights, moreover, are all much wider ranging than the title suggests. Aleen Stein, CEO of Organa.com and co-founder of The Voyager Company, called _Dust or Magic_ "incredibly engrossing. I expected to skim through it, and found myself reading it avidly, putting aside all the other work I should have been doing, in favor of consuming it. Very readable, it's as much of a page-turner as most fiction I'm reading. It has unique insight into the creative process." Bob Hughes worked in media from medieval manuscripts to television ads before discovering the computer in 1989. Since becoming hooked, he has developed CD-ROMs, learning games, kiosk systems, Web sites -- and deep sympathy for everyone who strives to do "good stuff," whatever the medium. Ordering with Eastgate is quick and easy. <http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/DustOrMagic.html> Dust or Magic: Secrets of Successful Multimedia Design by Bob Hughes Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-201-36071-3 (paper) $34.50 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This Eastgate Hypertext News message is sent to subscribers on request. The Eastgate Hypertext News is a low-volume, moderated list of hypertext news and announcements. 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