90s Opinion


Opinion
A platform for debate about what we want from the web and how we want it to happen. Send your reasoned arguments, hobby-horses, and rants for consideration. Max. 1000 words.


Sue Thomas: The Digital Life - 27/June/2005
Empowering others to take risks, to engage with their possible
by Randy Adams

To Be or Not to Be Free - 31/January/2005
Setting up a payment system for online new media writing is a calculated risk
by Edward Picot

Who is Jami Carelli?
For a brief moment, spam became entertainment
- 20/January/2005
Few things are as unbecoming as a worm-filled, virus-spreading, or spy-bot-launching message from a lady
by Kate Baggott

Journalism that Clicks - 12/November/2004
Journalism teacher Thom Lieb discusses online news sites that fulfil the promise of the web

Are cell phones new media? - 29/October/2004
Adriana de Souza e Silva, winner of the New Media Article Writing Competition in the Opinion category, writes about hybrid communities and collective authorship

Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs - 25/June/2004
Kate Baggott writes that blogs are "the only sign of the new revolution, the new democracy, and the new nervous system"
Winner of the New Media Article Writing Competition, Editor's Choice Award

Documentary Websites - 29/January/2004
Hyperliterature writer Edward Picot takes a look at documentary websites and investigates the effect of political bias and propaganda on online documentation

At Large in Cyberspace - 09/December/2003
At Large in Cyberspace: trAce's Associate Editor Randy Adams shares a day in the cyber office

Capitalism, Computers and the Class War on Your Desktop - 07/November/2003
Virtuality, and the weightless, frictionless, post-industrial information economy notwithstanding, there is a real world out there, and capitalism is trashing it - with our computers
By Bob Hughes

Data and Narrative: Location Aware Fiction - 31/October/2003
New media artist Kate Armstrong investigates the possibilities and potential of location aware narrative

Women and the Aesthetics of New Media - 20/June/2003
A short history of the significance of women's involvement in new media By Carol Gigliotti

Children’s Hypermedia on the Web - 30/April/2003
What sort of hypermedia is on the web for children? Is there a commercial market for it? Will hypermedia ever replace books? By Karen King

Oh Google, how do I love thee? - 11/February/2003
At Large in Cyberspace - a declaration of love for Auntie Google By Pauline Masurel.

At Large in Cyberspace - 14/January/2003
First in an occasional series by Randy Adams

Interview with Mark Tribe of Rhizome - 03/December/2002
Membership fees - to be or not to be?

Reluctant Writers - 29/October/2002
Does ICT raise standards? by Carrie McMillan

Flash Poetry - 01/October/2002
A favourite tool for generating and presenting animated poetry. by Peter Howard

No Visible Means of Support - 21/August/2002
Is there any money in new media writing? by Sue Thomas

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