For students who have done an online portfolio, or other non-'identity' themed web work

Please add two paragraphs either on your class blog or on your actual site about how your work ties into your notion of yourself, as a person, as a citizen, a student, etc.

How did you fin the theme of identity guiding you as you built your site?

This will help me to grade your assignments as per the central topic of the course - writing for the web with an emphasis upon the notion of identity and how it can be influenced by experience and culture.

Find ways to relate your output as a designer to your view of the world and how the world has shaped your idea of 'me'

For example, if your design work is influenced by a concern for the environment, explain how.

If your work reflects your thoughts on your a) cultural heritage, b) beliefs, c) influences etc.

What part of you do you feel your work best communicates?

Bruce Sterling clip

Advice to the young

"What is a Spime, and Why is it Useful?"

Bruce Sterling's thoughts on Design

Viridian Design Movement - Bruce Sterling

Classic address by Bruce Sterling to the 1992 Games Developers Conference:

http://lib.ru/STERLINGB/story.txt

Excellent book on Industrial Design: "Shaping Things" by Bruce Sterling as a free download.

Bruce Sterling "Blobjects" speech at SIGGRAPH 2004

Playing a sound when user rolls over an image using WYSIWYG html editor

http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/events.html

Learning from Ginsberg

Alan Ginsberg as well as William Burroughs are responsible for some of the finest writing to emerge from America.

here are lists to audio recordings of classes by Ginsberg

and readings and classes by William Burroughs at the internet archive

The web - where will we be in five years? (written at the end of 2009)

http://www.noupe.com/trends/the-future-of-the-web-where-will-we-be-in-five-years.html

Speaking of Timelines - the timeline of art history

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/