[Eastgate] Tinderbox: Virtual Meetup; Writing With Links

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Tinderbox Meetup

A bunch of Tinderbox users have put together a virtual meetup for all things Tinderbox.

	Saturday, 15 August 2020
	9AM PDT ❧ 12 noon EDT ❧ 1700 British Summer Time ❧ 1800 CEST

URL: visit https://forum.eastgate.com/t/tinderbox-meetup-bay-area-zoom/3494/5 <https://forum.eastgate.com/t/tinderbox-meetup-bay-area-zoom/3494/5> on Saturday morning for the URL

Novices are very welcome. Bring your questions and conundrums. It’s fun to hear what other people are working on, especially during these terrible times.

Upgrade Your Tinderbox Today: https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Order.html <https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Order.html>

Writing With Links

Mark Bernstein sends thanks to the SIGWEB of the Association for Computing Machinery and to the Computing Community Consortium for choosing his paper, “Bad Character: who do we want our hypertexts to be?” for a 2020 Blue Skies Award.

	https://www.markbernstein.org/Jul20/BadCharacter.html <https://www.markbernstein.org/Jul20/BadCharacter.html> 

ABSTRACT

We frequently assume that adaptive hypertexts ought to adopt the customs, habits and inclinations of the reader, that our computational assistants ought to act as reliable servants, and that users — even new users — ought to like the hypertextual artifacts we create.

This might be a mistake.

This study examines the limitations and flaws of “friendly” computing, taking an argument from The Tinderbox Way <https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/TinderboxWay.html> and extending it well into the future.

If you’d like to try your hand at writing a short hypertext in Storyspace <https://www.eastgate.com/storyspace/>  Twine, or anything else, take a look at Eastgate alumna Stacey Mason’s Fortnightly Fiction Jam 2. There’s still plenty of time to join.

	https://itch.io/jam/fortnightly-fiction-jam-2 <https://itch.io/jam/fortnightly-fiction-jam-2>


Mark Bernstein           bernstein at eastgate.com    (617) 924-9044
Eastgate Systems, Inc.   http://www.eastgate.com   (800) 562-1638
134 Main St.              
Watertown MA 02472 USA   http://markBernstein.org

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