Thanks for that, excellent reading and now I'm off to look at Obsidian. I'm sure you are aware of this, but (in the UK, certainly) back in the 80s the academic support magazine for Apple product was called Wheels For The Mind. It was in this magazine when I was an art student and getting to grips with Macs that I found an article about mailing lists. To cut a very long story short, this led me (via a conceptual void) to email, academic networks, artists online, tools for hypertext such as Hypercard and Owl and then the IP internet and my own internet career. I'm now (still) an artist and writer and my interest is in destructured writing (or constellation texts as I call them). I've been looking at tools that route around the 2D publication of texts, believing again that we need new tools to present post-internet texts as publications. I know this isn't what you're talking about, but it is adjacent to it, so thanks. (btw, I just wrote a constellation PhD so I am now a Dr thanks to those far off days of early hypertext). Cheers, Ivan
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Thanks for that, excellent reading and now I'm off to look at Obsidian. I'm sure you are aware of this, but (in the UK, certainly) back in the 80s the academic support magazine for Apple product was called Wheels For The Mind. It was in this magazine when I was an art student and getting to grips with Macs that I found an article about mailing lists. To cut a very long story short, this led me (via a conceptual void) to email, academic networks, artists online, tools for hypertext such as Hypercard and Owl and then the IP internet and my own internet career. I'm now (still) an artist and writer and my interest is in destructured writing (or constellation texts as I call them). I've been looking at tools that route around the 2D publication of texts, believing again that we need new tools to present post-internet texts as publications. I know this isn't what you're talking about, but it is adjacent to it, so thanks. (btw, I just wrote a constellation PhD so I am now a Dr thanks to those far off days of early hypertext). Cheers, Ivan