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Happy birthday to Doug Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart
January 30, 1925
Douglas Engelbart is Born
Doug Engelbart, best known for inventing the mouse, is born. Engelbart publically demonstrated the mouse at a computer conference in 1968, where he also showed off work his group had done in hypermedia and on-screen video teleconferencing. The founder of the Bootstrap Institute, Engelbart has 20 patents to his name.
Computer History Museum | Exhibits | This Day in History: January 30
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An excerpt from Nicholas Carr’s latest e-book/hypertext bah-humbug
But as is often the case with digitization, the boon carries a bane. The ability to alter the contents of a book will be easy to abuse. School boards may come to exert even greater influence over what students read. They’ll be able to edit textbooks that don’t fit with local biases. Authoritarian governments will be able to tweak books to suit their political interests. And the edits can ripple backward. Because e-readers connect to the Internet, the works they contain can be revised remotely, just as software programs are updated today. Movable text makes a lousy preservative.
Nicholas Carr on E-Books – WSJ.com
Excerpt from a useful snapshot of the apps-versus-Web debate; imho it’s ultimately all about beyond-the-basics hypertext
Simmons goes further, however, and asserts that because the server-side architecture that all apps rely on, both native and web, is now so clean and discrete and independent of its presentation on a phone by a website or an app, the future is actually web apps and native apps that are basically indistinguishable.
I think instead that we’ll see a more tangled future. Native apps will use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript more. Web apps will appear more often on smart phones as launchable apps. Native apps will support linking in and out… Continue reading: Détente in War Between Apps and Web – Technology Review
A hypertext information item collection/sharing service to explore
The Web may make it easy to communicate with people thousands of miles away and put libraries full of knowledge at our fingertips, but plenty of simple things are still surprisingly hard to do online. Take saving a piece of a Web page. That specific task is trickier than it sounds. A startup called Clipboard is building a simple solution using some rather sophisticated Web technologies.
Clipboard allows users to select and store pieces of Web pages in a cloud-based account. Users can comment on items, tag them, and search them. The site allows people to keep clippings private, share them with specific… Continue reading: Startup Lets You Save and Share Parts of Web Pages – Technology Review
Unsurprisingly not a fan of Kindle’s new X-Ray capability; see the link below for more details
"When you reduce friction, make something easy," says Bezos, correctly, "people do more of it." The friction in this case is the self-containment of the printed book, the tenacity of its grip on the reader. The reduction of the friction is the replacement of text with highly responsive hypertext. What people do more of is shift their focus and attention away from the words of the book and toward the web of snippets wrapped around the book – dictionary definitions, Wikipedia entries, character descriptions from Shelfari, and so forth. It’s easy to see the usefulness of X-Ray, particularly for reference books, manuals,… Continue reading: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The remains of the book
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