Ted Nelson’s 70th Birthday Lecture – Part 5 of 15:
5:20
- one is to say what is the real problem .. and that way lies madness
- and the other is to say, lets just throw in some stuff we have lying around
The issue is that there is no determinate order in which to say things.
What I find most atrocious about Xerox Parc is what they did to cut and past.
The purpose of hypertext was to make visible really complicated documents
The Web That Wasn’t
Google Tech Talks : October, 23 2007
Alex Wright, New York Times Digital
Eugene Garfield:
- Founder of Science Citation Index
- Forefather of Pagerank
Body Rayward, “Visions of Xanadu”
Ted Nelson:
- he was about half-crazy, but he was also kind of a genius
- 37:00
Google Backrub did back links
Citation analysis of Ted Nelson’s works and his influence on hypertext concept Ming
This study investigates Ted Nelson’s works and the influence of his hypertext concept through citation analysis, including citation counting, characteristics of citing articles on language, document type, citing year, discipline, and citation content. The selection of the Nelson’s works was based on searching Library Literature & Information Science, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Google and Yahoo search engines. The citation data were compiled from the database of Web of Science. The results of the study reveal that hypertext has directly great impact on information retrieval and world wide web; therefore, the concept has had profound influence on information, library and computer science disciplines
Xanadu, the music
Xanadu Australia, theme music