cultural intelligence works design equals information web context visual mark-up

the end of context as we know it?

http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core (Dublin Core Metadata) Information on information on information will save us from data drowning. Eventually. Metadata will rule data for ever—so they're a design principle.

http://crit.org (CritSuite feedback-ware) Information symmetry: we don't hear much about it these days. Yet the most promising information media slogan was 'many-to-many', which foretold equal downstream and upstream throughput. How would we handle feedback annotation? Check out Foresight and Crit.

http://crit.org/~peterson/CritFAQ.html (Chris PetersonCritFAQ: an Introduction to Critical Discussion Using CritSuite) As above, so FAQ.

attention/style: the new scarcity

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/eco/6097/1.html (Michael GoldhaberThe Attention Economy and the Net) Invest your attention at a profitable rate: 'an information technology is also an attention technology, or in other words, a transfer of information is only completed when there is also a transfer of attention proceeding in the opposite direction'. When your own private opposite direction is no give-away, pay some attention to Goldhaber's papers.

http://www.well.com/user/mgoldh (Michael Goldhaber's Web Page) at home with Michael Goldhaber: where he keeps first principles, different generations of his published texts, notes and miscellaneous thoughts.

writing/style: wysiwyg wbwrtng

http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting (Jakob Nielsen cs.Writing for the Web) guiding people's information access in networked media demands different ways of writing, editing, and design, for usability and meaning. Nielsen did the testing, we can do the writing. In the one-to-one future every man deserves his own team (and builds it him-/herself), so finally there's plenty of opportunity for all of us!

review/style

http://www.firstmonday.dk (First Monday, Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet) First Monday publishes highly readable peer-reviewed Internet critique, as 'an experiment in electronic publishing'. Check out the flow of a typical article and submit your own.

http://www.edge.org (The Reality Club) Another valuable contribution to issue-based Internet and information media critique. Third-culturish but anchored in the real world. Where Digerati Meet. Dedicated to the memory of James Lee Byars (with whom I worked for Documenta 7... under the auspices of Corps de Garde, Groningen, the Netherlands 1979).

enhancement/style

http://www.foresight.org/WebEnhance (Foresight InstituteEnhancing the World Wide Web; Social Software for the Evolution of Knowledge) The Foresight Institute is one of the places dedicated to a certain technology (nano), that develops other technologies in the passing (like the www was developped at CERN). This document tells us why this is important. (What did art ever develop 'in the passing'?)

the there out there: stranger than fiction

http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html (An Atlas of Cyberspaces) Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

http://www.policescanner.com (Police Radio Scanner) We are talking major dislocation here. This site(sic) was built radio on: my ADSL test set-up supplied streaming Manhattan crises, Dallas rescues and Los Angeles heat!

http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? (Translation Engine) An a-ma-zing tool. Straightforward language gets a fair translation with this engine. It's a great dictionary, and makes up the most evocative gibberish if you feed it right...

http://www.pat-assoc.org/ (The Patients Association) The patients association makes an excellent model for every special interest group: it is vital, dedicated, communicational, and opposes the consensus reality of medical treatment.

http://www.amazon.com (Information Customization: 'If You Are Not Jouke Kleerebezem, Click Here') They get to know you at Amazon.com. Their recommendations improve with your ordering. Too bad the feed of interesting books is limited, like my time to read them, spending at least 6 hours on line each day...

http://www.doorsofperception.com (Doors of Perception 1-4) Existing since 1993 Doors will be a major venue in 1998. Doors of Perception once again will open wide to cutting edge new media investigation from an inevitable angle: are we only in it for play? Previous Doors' featured speakers like Ivan Illich, David Liddle, Patie Maes, Rem Koolhaas, Andrew Ross, David Chaum, Susan George, Toshio Iwai, Christopher Alexander, Manuel Delanda, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Lynn Hersman...

http://www.doorsofperception.com/doors/doors5 (Doors of Perception 5) Join the Fifth Anniversary Doors at the legendary Berlage Beurs in Amsterdam: Learn On Play.

http://www.design-inst.nl/reviews/jjk/vp3.html (VisionPlus 3 'Design on the Fly Review) 'Design on the Fly' gave me the wings to participate in the information design debate. The Internet/www needs ID more than anything else.

http://www.ciw.net (cultural intelligence works) These 'works' follow up on the 'office'. This time the difference is in the name.