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1st October 2000

Pedro and Me: A Graphic Novel by Judd Winick

“Pedro and Me is Judd Winick’s graphic novel about his friendship with his Real World roomate, Pedro Zamora. Pedro and Me will be published by Henry Holt and Co. for the fall of 2000. As the months go on before publication, we’ll show more of the book.”

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1st October 2000

Seven styles of learning: The part they play when developing interactivity

“Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, hypothesizes that human beings are capable of seven independent means of information processing. How many do you think are considered when a team brainstorms a new product proclaiming itself to be ‘interactive?’” Also: Part 2 Part 3.

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1st October 2000

In Search of Webs Past

“Think of the Web as an enormous, slow hard disk. Shared by the entire world, this disk holds a record of radical media experimentation, the history of a form that sprang up less than a decade ago to infect popular consciousness and transform the way we use information. Yet despite a few archival projects, no one is backing up our collective disk.”

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1st October 2000

The Justification for Hyphenation

“A letter to a typographer friend, in which the author reveals how the finest details of setting type make all the difference when the time comes for reading.”

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1st October 2000

Techno Greeks

“Over the past year, we have been hearing much ado from the various factions and fighting from the front lines of the Blogging Revolution. This Web trend certainly has the earmarks of an uprising, as well as its fair share of passion from all sides, but is that enough to categorize it with other great revolutions throughout history? Since the craze began, commentary on weblogs has run from the astute to the absurd.”

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