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15th March 2001

Choose your own Carl

“The web’s only fully interactive, multiple path, reader-written, death-obsessed comics extravaganza was finally completed on February 25, 2001. See how over 1,000 readers, over the course of more than 2 years, helped participate in the creation of a LIFE! A very inane and pointless life perhaps, but a life nonetheless.”

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15th March 2001

Bayeux Tapestry

“The most important relic to survive from the eleventh century. A stitched chronicle of the battle. Who commissioned it? How and where was it made and how did it manage to survive, when so little else did from those times? What does it tell us of the Battle of Hastings? …Here, you will find the complete Bayeux Tapestry reproduced section by section in much higher resolution and scale.”

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15th March 2001

Visual Design for Instructional Content (Part I)

“In an earlier article ‘Monkey Instruction’, we addressed the issue of effective writing for online instruction. We asked why some online courses are boring and analyzed a Webmonkey course to understand its writing style that makes it such a popular course. In planning for this article we looked at several resources, addressing disparate issues, conflicting theories, numerous principles, techniques and rules — that it was difficult to bring them all together in one article. Hence we have decided to tackle them in a series of parts, with each part devoted to one set of guiding principles or a specific resource. Part I of the article analyses Edward Tufte’s principles of visualizing information.”

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15th March 2001

Clay Shirky Explains Internet Evolution

“Really. He does. Quite eloquently. Clay Shirky’s answers to our questions could easily be turned into an all-day seminar on where the Internet is today as a communications medium, where it might be 10 years from now, and how it is going to get from here to there. This is information you need if your career or business is affected by the Internet in any way. Lots of good debunking, too, of everything from WAP to the myth of increased media homogenization, all put forth with enough humor to keep even Clay’s most depressing thoughts from bringing (too many) tears to your eyes.”

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15th March 2001

Visual Design for Instructional Content (Part I)

“In an earlier article ‘Monkey Instruction’, we addressed the issue of effective writing for online instruction. We asked why some online courses are boring and analyzed a Webmonkey course to understand its writing style that makes it such a popular course. In planning for this article we looked at several resources, addressing disparate issues, conflicting theories, numerous principles, techniques and rules — that it was difficult to bring them all together in one article. Hence we have decided to tackle them in a series of parts, with each part devoted to one set of guiding principles or a specific resource. Part I of the article analyses Edward Tufte’s principles of visualizing information.”

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15th March 2001

Visual Design for Instructional Content (Part I)

“In an earlier article ‘Monkey Instruction’, we addressed the issue of effective writing for online instruction. We asked why some online courses are boring and analyzed a Webmonkey course to understand its writing style that makes it such a popular course. In planning for this article we looked at several resources, addressing disparate issues, conflicting theories, numerous principles, techniques and rules — that it was difficult to bring them all together in one article. Hence we have decided to tackle them in a series of parts, with each part devoted to one set of guiding principles or a specific resource. Part I of the article analyses Edward Tufte’s principles of visualizing information.”

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15th March 2001

Bayeux Tapestry

“The most important relic to survive from the eleventh century. A stitched chronicle of the battle. Who commissioned it? How and where was it made and how did it manage to survive, when so little else did from those times? What does it tell us of the Battle of Hastings? …Here, you will find the complete Bayeux Tapestry reproduced section by section in much higher resolution and scale.”

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