Hello World

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  • 2013 Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace
  • 2012 In the Flesh: Twenty Writers Explore the Body
  • 2009 Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies
  • 2008 Transdisciplinary Digital Art: Sound, Vision and the New Screen
  • 2004 Hello World: Travels in Virtuality
  • 2002 Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture
  • 2000 Inhuman Reflections: Rethinking the Limits of the Human
  • 1999 The Noon Quilt
  • 1998 Crossing The Border
  • 1995 Creative Writing : A Handbook for Workshop Leaders
  • 1994 Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women
  • 1994 Water
  • 1992 Correspondence
  • 1990 Where No Man has Gone Before: Essays on Women and Science Fiction

Snippets from the past

  • 2012 Traces of the trAce Online Writing Centre 1995-2005 | Jacket2
  • 2005 trAces: A Commemoration of Ten Years of Artistic Innovation at trAce
  • 2005 trAce Online Writing Centre Archive
  • 2004 Sistema Purificacion
  • 2003 Spivak
  • 2002 Writing Machines by N.Katherine Hayles
  • 2002 Tools of the trade
  • 2002 Stephanie Strickland: Living in the Space between Print and Online
  • 2002 No visible means of support
  • 2002 A New Sensibility? The qualities of a new media writer
  • 2001 Interview by 3am Magazine
  • 2000 lux : notes for an electronic writing
  • 2000 Evolving Practice: writers working online with trAce
  • 2000 Correspondence @ Riding the Meridian
  • 2000 ::::::In Place of the Page::::::
  • 1999 Tremble
  • 1999 The [+]Net[+] of Desire
  • 1999 Noon Quilt
  • 1999 Interview by Full Circle
  • 1998 Sharing a common language online
  • 1998 Land: Textual MOO-based virtual landscapes
  • 1998 Imagining a stone: virtual landscapes
  • 1998 Ensemble Logic + Choragraphy
  • 1998 Creative interaction in cyberspace
  • 1997 Revolver


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Is there a diagram of how social tags work?

In  the next few weeks I'm giving three talks about transliteracy and folksonomy - a seminar for my colleagues at De Montfort University, a paper at Interfaces: English Studies and the Computer, Newcastle, 3/4 November, and a talk at the Leicester Cafe Scientifique, 8 November.

However, I'm getting a little worried because as part of my talk I want to give a simple visual guide to how social tagging works, and what I'd really like is to be able to show a nice plain diagram. However, I've hunted around and can't find anything like that, which seems rather odd. Surely someone somewhere has produced something like this? I'd much appreciate recommendations from anyone who knows of such a diagram.

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Traveling Through Cyberspace: Tourism and Photography in Virtual Worlds

This interesting paper by Betsy Book (June 2003) describes tourism in graphical virtual worlds and reminds me of the fun trips I had in the Hyper Hovercraft(#94256) at LambdaMOO. I just checked and it's no longer there, although it exists in my personal list of rooms (@rooms). It was a very clever piece of programming - you could climb in with a few friends and take off, swooping over the assembled Lambda hordes in the public rooms. Great fun. There were balloon trips there too - I wonder whether they still exist? Have emailed *research to enquire.

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Ever wondered just how far you move your mouse?

A freeware odometer for your mouse.

Track how many miles your mouse has travelled!

Mouse Off-road 2.16.2

(with thanks to Catherine Gillam)

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VisitorVille

VisitorVilleVisitorVille turns realtime web traffic into something that looks like the Sims - but it's real. Watch your site live as visitors come and go and interact. I imagine you could even turn it into some kind of game by changing the design of your site to see how it influences their activities. Fantastic!

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14 Where are we?

Page 119

Traceroute is a technique used to follow this passage of data across the web. When the user sends an email, it is first broken down into packets which are then sent one-by-one to their destination. But they do not generally travel direct – they have to pass through hubs of exchange, and traceroute programs count how long the journey takes between each one. If a journey is particularly slow it means there are problems in that sector, and if a hub is out of service the data-packet will be seen to have not progressed beyond it. It is, effectively, stuck there until it finds another route onwards. For a system with no physical geography, the net is extraordinarily good at mapping itself, and a traceroute report builds its own cultural and poetic landscape.

Experiment with traceroute here. If you know your IP address you can enter it in the box - otherwise just use the one provided, and select a location from the checklist.

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