Photo from awesome teacher @paulramsay who used PrintAndShare.org to share his classroom’s DonorsChoose Project. As a result of building PrintAndShare.org I am hyper-sensitive to the drawbacks of URLs—which is my service’s weakest link. I’m using bit.ly shortened URLs that unfortunately have an ambiguous mix of upper and lower-case letters; ambiguous both in terms of typeface (els and ones [...]
I am very impressed with how Marcus du Sautoy’s The Number Mysteries integrates hyperlinks into the book using URL shorteners and QR codes (above). Contrast that with Dan Cederholm’s Handcrafted CSS (which is still an excellent book). The latter was published August 2009, the former August 2010.
This is how the emerging internet is described in The Axemaker’s Gift, published in 1995. Interesting sections to me highlighted by me: The new systems can present data to the user in the form of a “web” on which all the information contained in a database is interlinked. For example, a simple chain of web data-links [...]
