For L460, I suggested this site and, in particular, the hyper-poem-artpiece, "blindspot," as my "new media recommendation."
It's a great study in the use of interactive multi-media art composed of text, hypertext and graphics.
See "blindspot" and other creative gems at http://adaweb.walkerart.org/home.shtml

300-4-L460-x-311-80-3846
My Pseudo-Submission for Ryman’s Another One Along in a Minute

Project #1/IUPUI/L460

BECKY STEVENS
On the Path of Least Resistance?

SURFACE PRESENTATION:
The part in her near-auburn hair is a jagged line, and her pig-tails are mis-matched in size and position. Her white tights are a bit baggy, and the skirt zipper which belongs in back is on her hip. Her blouse-lapels are trapped inside the collar of a school uniform sweater vest. A windbreaker’s sleeve sticks out of a small backpack.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
While her U.S. Embassy employee Father and socialite-once-removed Mother were still asleep, Becky’d dressed her own hair, assembled her own outfit, prepared her own breakfast, and left the house with barely a sound.

In two-and-a-half weeks, she will be 5 years old.

Her Mother would be 27 in 4 days, and Becky had decided to go shopping so she could surprise her with a secret Birthday present. She’d found and bought an over-sized bottle of fancy-looking-but-cheap-smelling Woolworth’s perfume. Adventure turned to trauma when a walking cliché of a dirty old man, rumpled raincoat and all, tried to inconspicuously take her by the hand as she left the store. He offered candy. She ran.

PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION:
Seated stiffly, her expression is a somewhat blank Mona Lisa-esque combination smile and grimace. A blink of surprise preceded a crack-filled mask of pain. Tears followed immediately, levee-cresting her wide eyes as her innocent sense of security turned into an awareness of her close call and current risk.

Under her breath, she begins to hum the Mary Poppins tune, “My Favorite Things.” Between phrases, she sniffs and runs a sleeve across her nose.

In a few minutes, she’ll see the Waterloo station sign and ask her neighbor where they are. When she finds out that she’s on the opposite side of London from her stop, Marylebone, the tears which had finally slowed to a trickle will abruptly pour again.

Ladies and Gentlemen (and any other web-user of any kind ...):
Let me introduce you (if you haven't seen it already) to Geoff Ryman's _253_-- the undisputed, undefeated, heavyweight champion of hypertexted, web-based fiction: http://www.ryman-novel.com/

It's a literary masterpiece in any medium, but it's also a pioneering work of genius in the nascent-but-potent field of "experimental literature" and "new media."

Check it out (no card necessary), you big, beautiful, organically-grown, carbon-based, carefully-trained and highly-skilled digital-information absorption device, you!

David, Daric, Keith and I even tried our hands at this for our L460 Project #3. Ours was arranged to be a series of 4 links running through 4 stories by 4 people on 4 pages. 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 = 256. So, our stories were 256 words long. No more. No less. You can see it in all its "Flash"-y splendor at http://php.iupui.edu/~daltenho/L460/project3/256home.html, but watch out for that red button!

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Vanity Press on the Web
(... inclusion does not equal endorsement ...)
www.starpublications.com
www.iuniverse.com
www.ebookconnections.com

Other E-Writing Sites
(... same disclaimer applies ...)
www.scribesworld.com
www.sharpwriter.com

Happy Thanksgiving!

Tim’s Web-writing Links for L460

Project 2, due 10/17/00 for my Fall 2000 "Experimental Literature" class at IUPUI

About.com’s Hypertext Literature Site
http://search.about.com/fullsearch.htm?terms=hypertext+fiction&PM=59_0100_S
As usual, About.com sets the standard as a resource for a given topic. Borges and his progeny are here along with lots of other interesting people and places to meet, see and read. Click those links, fellow-hypereaders!

SA Student Advantage Research
http://research.studentadvantage.com/
Are you familiar with this site? Wow, it’s a genuinely excellent resource (on every topic I’ve ever tried out), and I recommend it highly.
Here’s the link for their “hypertext fiction” search results (a quick read of the links makes me think that there’s good stuff for study):
http://ase.studentadvantage.com/research/searchforhypertext

Peanut Press Publishing
http://www.peanutpress.com/index.cgi/01172046-83234-92161
In my opinion, this is another one of those “intermediate steps,” but it’s a good “beta” attempt at what will inevitably develop in digital publishing. They’re either already preparing for the next step (constantly linked PDA-ish users who use and store almost all of their data and files in web-based storage), or they’ll be this year’s Commodore 64 …

Web-ring of Web-fiction & hypertext New Media
http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=ibook&list
I tried and tried to find something worth reading and recommending here.
I failed. Maybe you won’t. Then again, maybe life’s too short …

AS@UVA
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
This, on the other hand, is great stuff. Lots of classic lit converted to hypertext.
Poe’s Pym is available in multi-path/entryway format. The page includes several great links (Bartleby, Eris & Gutenberg, among others).
A great site to bookmark!

Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
Speaking of Bartleby, this place is fantastic.
The Shakespeare resources are excellent (that is, quick, reliable, and otherwise entropy-defying). Enjoy!

Helen Schwartz’s Shakespeare Resources
http://php.iupui.edu/~shakes/
Username: Shakespeare. Password: Shakespeare.
“… like a little touch of Harry in the night …” –Henry V
It’s one of the sites which justify all the silliness of a world-wide web.

Hyperizons
http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html
This is nice, too. Lots of organization and lots of information beyond “just” the stories themselves. There’s even some Lit. Crit. happening here. You’ll notice quickly that it’s a somewhat historical document at this point. It appears that the last update was in 1997. Likely there will be broken links, but it’s still valuable as a look back at what the developing/prevailing theories were “way back then.”
Can you say, “Tenure?” “Thesis Project?” I knew you could.

Eastgate.com
http://www.eastgate.com/
This node seems like a rich cyber-vein, primed for mining.
Many of L460’s usual suspects live there.

Patchwork@Eastgate.com
http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Patchwork.html
This looks pretty interesting-- and only $19.95! Also, check out the “from page to screen” section. Pynchon & Borges figure prominently …

Northernlight.com’s Hypertext Fiction search results page
http://www.northernlight.com/e-booksearch
Northern Light’s search engine is unique, and this its search page for hypertext fiction.
Try it, you might like it!

Davey LeFevre’s web-text links from his New Media Lab’s L460 site
Davey is a Computer-Maestro in so many ways, and I recommend his recommendations ...

• The Electronic Labyrinth


• E-Dionysys.com: Re-Thinking the Book


• The English Server


• Bibliofuture


• Pubspace


• Yahoo directory of web published fiction.


• Hypertext Fictions on the Web


• Hyperizons


• Foundation of a Digital Culture


• Shadowvale


• Collaborative Writing Engine


• L460 Group 2's Annotated Bibliography: Hypertext Criticism

Barnes & Noble E-Book info
B&N E-book Search
This is an important development at B&N. You can download free readers (both for Windows & Palm platforms) and then buy, download, unzip, open and read the books you’ve added to your virtual library. What could be easier or more convenient?! Assuming that it works and that they put out some books worth buying in this format ... I tried to get a C.S. Lewis book (it was cheap!), but something went wrong.
User-error, no doubt.