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There’s an interesting series of posts at Hypulp about hyperlink metaphors being used in print publications (part 1,part 2andpart 3).I was just reading a magazine article this morning (amusingly, it concerned usability) and thinking that the way it was pointing to other resources seemed quite clumsy now that we’re used to instant gratification online via a simple mouse click. Then again, I get CMD-F (Find) keyboard shortcut reflexes while reading books.

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I never realised there’d been a radio play of Gibson’s Neuromancer; it was broadcast on the BBC World Service’s Play of the week in October 2003. Jody Armstrong hasput it up for downloadin MP3 format.

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Has French president Jacques Chirac reallygot a weblog? Nice effort, but something’s not quite right.A whois on the domain also indicates the following:

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The O’Reilly Network is carrying a goodsummary of the current European software patents directive/mess.-----

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Cory Doctorowpointsto an article aboutyet another acronym: CPCM, the European version of the United States’ broadcast flag and just as potentially troubling. It defines what a consumer can or can’t do with copyrighted content on his equipment, if it can be stored, copied, shared and how many times. It looks, at first glance, to be even more restrictive than its American cousin.

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The reference in street art sites, wooster collective, haslaunched a new podcastfeaturing interviews and commentary from leading contempory artists. The first installment stars Jon Burgerman.

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