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DESCRIPTION:Seventy-five years into the digital era\, much of our online co
 mmunication is still rooted in the linear strictures of print. Browsers ma
 ke us jump from tab to tab\, thus obscuring a sense of the whole\, includi
 ng how the different bits are connected\, all of which robs the “reader
 ” of valuable context. With Tapestries people can create non-linear pres
 entations that are more in synch with the way our re-wired brains are begi
 nning to understand the world—as a multi-faceted assemblage of related i
 deas\, letting authors dynamically explain how things are connected. Tapes
 tries are not simply lists of links\, requiring the user to click and go s
 omewhere else. Rather they are an array of functional objects: each one vi
 sible and ready to be accessed and explored. You create a Tapestry by drag
 ging digital objects—text\, images\, audio\, video\, software and entire
  web pages onto a blank infinite canvas. Size and placement is entirely up
  to the author. Tapestries can be displayed anywhere. Think of Tapestries 
 as portable compound illustrations comprised of fully functional digital o
 bjects which can be embedded on any web page. Readers can comment on any p
 art of a Tapestry or on the whole. Comments can be public or posted to a p
 rivate group. For deeper collaboration\, you can also invite other people 
 to edit a Tapestry with you. If creators have given permission\, readers c
 an make their own editable copies and remake them as they please.\n\nLunch
  at 11:45 a.m. for in-person attendees\n\nRegister to join online\n \n\nAb
 out the Speaker\n\n\n I got bit by the electronic publishing bug in 1979 a
 nd haven't looked back since.  For the first 15 years\, I worked on expand
 ing the notion of the page to include rich media. The two companies i foun
 ded\, Criterion and Voyager\, managed a lot of firsts—the first films wi
 th commentary tracks and supplementary sections\; what is widely regarded 
 as the first commercially viable CD-rom\, The CD Companion to Beethoven's 
 Ninth Symphony\, referenced in Edward Tufte's Visual Explanations and refe
 rred to by Alan Kay as "the first piece of digital "content" worth critici
 zing"\; and the first electronic books—Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Trilog
 y and Martin Gardner's Annotated Alice in 1992.  After that there were a b
 unch of years spent on tool making and in 2004 the Macarthur Foundation ga
 ve me a five-year grant to explore the evolution of publishing in the digi
 tal era. With that grant i started the Institute for the Future of the Boo
 k where my colleagues and I started investigating what happens when you pl
 ace text in a browser with a dynamic margin. The upshot of this work was S
 ocialBook\, Inc. a company focused on the evolution of "reading" from a so
 litary to a social experience. Currently I'm leading\, The Tapestry Projec
 t—an ambitious effort to develop a non-linear authoring environment—th
 ink HyperCard thirty years on—in conjunction with Stanford (where my arc
 hives are) and the Internet Archive.\n\n—Bob Stein
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SUMMARY:Bob Stein | Welcome to Tapestries
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