About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Tag Archives: the internet
All the questions…
One of the things we did this week was come up with questions about the Internet. Below I’ve pulled together most, if not all, of them. If people tagged their posts correctly, finding their questions was fairly easy. That’s one … Continue reading
Why the Internet?
Why are we using the Internet as a theme? I started thinking about this idea a few months ago, when I came across the article “The true promise of Interactive Computing: Leveraging our Collective IQ.” I started thinking about how … Continue reading
Hypertext in the ’70s
Zach Whalen tweeted some quotes from an ancient documentary on hypertext: “…pristine and inviolate — but manifold and pluralistic. This web of interrelated texts is called a hypertext.”https://t.co/yxouNxmOVU — zach whalen (@zachwhalen) May 9, 2016 Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in … Continue reading
Stella, dear…
A retweet from AK brought this article from McKelvey, Tiessen & Simcoe to my attention the other day: Got it wrong: it’s not dataveillance; rather we all just live in a simulation of the Internet. http://t.co/Y2PeWLVwdh pic.twitter.com/RTdt38SnbZ — Paul-Olivier Dehaye (@podehaye) … Continue reading
Putting a Cmap into a blog post
There are a few different ways to put a Cmap into a blog post. If I wanted to be lame, I could make the map into an image either by taking a screen shot or exporting the map as an … Continue reading
Playing with CMAP
Here I’m experimenting with mapping things out with Cmap Tools. I used Vannevar Bush’s seminal article “As We May Think” as the central concept and connected some related things, like a little about the author and what he envisioned, and … Continue reading