Would have liked to have read Kokura but
the back and forth motion of the auto refreshed top frame together with the cursor
changing and all the activity in the status window on each refresh combined to make me
nauseous, not a good condition for any sort of reading.
About the bomb and about someone coming down with cancer and a
relation between.
I liked the idea of the countdown of various A bomb tests but
the structure just doesn't work, there must be a way around this a technical solution.
That this piece would get such high praise is very much a mystery to me. I'm having
trouble with a few things I've seen in the hyperfiction world, the rise of a punditry and
a proliferation of texts that are very similar. Last year very few hypertexts on the web,
this year many more but then there is a quality problem. Also, this piece is effectively
shielded from the authors so I have no way to contact them about what I see as a major
design problem. So much for empowering the reader.
A shame because this flaw destroys what could very well be a
good piece and the authors are puffed-up by a very few to make the same mistakes again.
Would like hypertext to be more than an elite parlor game for some lame postmodern
ideologues, post modernism, post structuralism tie it to a post and shoot it. I want to
see a true digital culture, I want to see this happening, it is happening but this,
disappointing.
