Steve Ersinghaus

I’ve added a “record correction” to my Doninger post.
Thanks, Andy.

Why is it that the spaces I pay attention to are filled with hypertext and the tools, such as Gimcrack’d (could someone check the iphone on this one? Um, Jesse?), Hypertextopia, and now the wall outside my office at work? This is a good thing.
Thanks Susan for the links.
One genius of Storyspace is its editor, [...]

I honestly don’t understand why Vista would be such a complex problem with all the time for testing and development.
I just don’t get it.

I find this post by Ben Vershbow at if:book on hypertext strange and worrisome. It starts with comment on Jeremy Ashkenas’ web tool Hypertextopia and then dips into generalization and the condemnation of a class of objects.
He writes:
The site [Hypertextopia] is gorgeously done, applying a fresh coat of Web 2.0 paint to the creaky [...]

I’m getting a little tired of private betas.
See.

Alright, I love Tara Hunt on TransitCamp and the complaints/solutions paradigm because I’ve been in the same mood about other projects. She says:
This is a solutions playground. Please keep it that way.
Yes!!

Congratulations go to Susan Gibb who’s been promoted to Director of the writing arts at the Fine Arts Connection of Thomaston, Connecticut. In this position she’ll be able to promote her interests in traditional and digital arts from the ground up, where, I believe, swells need to occur and are most valuable.
The technical nature [...]

Dan Ruby has created a Facebook group for the British Literature course. A few items have been added to the group. It may be an interesting way of keeping in contact. I even posted a forum item on potential exam questions.
Thanks to Dan for his efforts.
Students may join at will. In the effort [...]

I read this post on contextual menus at Mark Bernstein’s weblog and went through the process described by Jonathan Leavitt.
Very nice. This is going to help a lot with lecture notes, especially when elaborations and examples are required.

Just for kicks, I added a hypertext fiction group to Facebook. Carolyn had asked what my feelings were about Facebook and, since I have no real feelings about it, I decided to add the group to promote some measure of subjectivity.

The new building and classroom are a breath of fresh air. The little laptop in the room that runs all the equipment is a little disproportionate, though. Nice big screen and D assures us that the macs will jack right in and auto-switch.
Very nice and we also have a little gizmo we can use to [...]

Grabbed this piece on dialogue in games from Andrew at Grand Text Auto. Matthew Sakey in Talking with Transistors:
Part of it is that we are still roleplaying with circuit boards, and technology means it’s going to be that way for a while. When the day arrives that we’re actually roleplaying with the game AI, and [...]

Mary Ellen finally has a weblog. It’s titled Tribelet of Hoodlums.
Now we can follow the Trinity experience.
Cool.

This will be interesting to follow, a selective code application of CommentPress for use on Expressive Processing at Grand Text Auto, a subject that has recently come up in the development of Brimmer and Death here at this weblog.
Expressive Processing is Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s latest.

In a note to this post on hypertext and effects Juan writes:
It can be argued that most pieces of electronic literature could be reproduced in paper, thus the question about essential innovation seems valid. What cannot be reproduced on paper is the processing capacity of a computer. Storyspace offers some basic processing. Literatronic offers a [...]