Birth of Multimedia (A Footnote). In Being Digital Nicholas Negroponte points to the Aspen Project, an early venture of the MIT Media Lab, as the “birth of multimedia.” The 1978 project involved a visual mapping of Aspen, Colorado, using video disk technology to methodically capture… [Matthew G. Kirschenbaum]

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i'd say a footnote, just like sandtables need a footnote. a sandtable is where you lay out the terrain of the land with wet sand then plot strategy on it using markers. it is interactive, and it is currently very high tech. though the lowtech version exists everywhere. a sandtable is a virtual map that you tie a narrative to, and try to imagine the outcomes.

OA to grey literature. Paola De Castro and Sandra Salinetti, Quality of Grey Literature in the Open Access Era: Privilege and Responsibility, Publishing Research Quality, Spring 2004. Not even an abstract is free online to non-subscribers, at least so far. The rest of the Spring 2004 issue is dedicated to grey literature. (Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) (PS: Although I've used deep links to the article and issue, they probably won't work for you. You'll have to register at the site and then hunt for the article and issue all over again. Transaction Publishers isn't trying to make it easy.) [Open Access News]

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most people know that i have a strange interest in grey literature, i encourage others to have it to. it is one of the best ways to increase understanding.

fuggin scary if you ask me.

Who will be liable if and when real life fails to follow the rose-tinted script?. The Prince of Wales is known for speaking his mind – a quality I greatly admire, even when I do not agree. (For example, his criticisms of modernist architecture pissed off more than one British architect, and I can't say I entirely blame them, but LÌ©on Krier and Nikos Salingaros make some good points in Charles' defense.)

But today the BBC reports that the Prince warns of science risks, and he gets my full support:

No it doesn't. Actually, it kind of scares me. [Purse Lip Square Jaw]

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the fear only speaks toward the inadequate funding in comparison, not as much as to the costs…. lots of times funders underestimate the need of social research, but rarely do they overbudget the cost.

well, the cia is the scapegoat, but i would think, i mean… we have this thing called the nsa, and another bit called the dia, and all that, that the president would have had complete information or at least more views and knew that he didn't have great intel and decided to go anyway. in fact, i'd say it's more about the price of oil as billy bragg noted a few months back.