Friday, October 16, 2009

SOPHIE 2.0

Just stumbled across this and its way cool. "Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Funded by grants from the Mellon and Macarthur foundations and the University of Southern California, Sophie is free and entirely open-source. "

Anyone tried it yet? Check out the video on side bar for info: http://sophieproject.cntv.usc.edu/

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

10/GUI

Someone sent this on the SILS listserv, thought you'd be interested. Not directly related--

a very interesting video (10 mins) that nicely encapsulates many ideas that folks are working on these days (including at SILS :-) ). If you're interested in user interfaces, touch screens, and replacements for the computer mouse take a look at

http://10gui.com/video/