External Links for "Fanning the Flames"

• The link animations, which originally pointed to http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/toe3.gif, showed an animated .gif file of Kiwi's Toes wiggling. The purpose of the animation is to show how "play" can also be "learning."

• The link bot scripts, which originally pointed to http://lrc.csun.edu:8888/1237, shows some ways in which playing in MOOs (in this case with bots and bot scripting) can also be learning and, possibly, publishing. The author also hopes that this bot script will show how publications are, in essence, conversation.

• The link , which originally pointed to http://www.altavista.com, links to a popular search engine. The purpose of the link is to help the reader find their way through the maze of the Internet. In other words, if you have a ?, then you can go to a search engine to help find the answer. :)

chicken.html

• The link Appendix A, originally pointed to http://lrc.csun.edu:8888/1237, the WWW home page for Kowi, a bot at DaMOO. (See "bot scripts").

• The link Appendix B, originally pointed to http://lrc.csun.edu:8888/1412, the WWW home page for the URL Room at DaMOO where Kowi lives. This room allows for the reader to add URLs and comments to the text by adding a URL and gives instructions for reading the bot script

• The link , which originally pointed to http://www.promo.net/pg/, the home page for Project Gutenberg, is intended to show both the meaninglessness of arrows pointing to the left and right in hypertexts, and to imply that pointing to the left, as this arrow does, might imply turning back the pages of time rather than the pages of a text. In other words, this link shows our reliance on text-based conventions, even in hypertext.

• The link , which originally pointed to http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/toe3.gif, again is intended to show the meaningless of navigational buttons such as these in hypertexts, as well as to confuse the reader and lend a playfulness to the text. (See "toes".)

• The link , which originally pointed to http://lrc.csun.edu/~max/objects/back.gif, again is intended to show the meaningless of navigational buttons such as these in hypertexts, since "the back button is not connected"!

• The link , which originally pointed to http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/paep.html, again is intended to show the meaningless of navigational buttons such as these in hypertexts, in this case pointing to an apparently unrelated outside source, but one that might also imply that a button pointing to the right might point to future possibilities, by pointing to the home page for the "National Strategy for Provision of Access to Australian Electronic Publications: A National Library of Australia Position Paper," a site that discusses the National Library of Australia's project to make texts available in digitized format.

concl.html

• The link wind-up ducks, which originally pointed to http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/people/mkh/virtual_worlds/MOO/tutorials/ducktutorial.html, links to Judy Anderson's (yduJ to the "initiated") famous "Wind-Up Duck Tutorial," which uses play (wind-up ducks) to teach MOO programming (i.e., play as learning). (See also "toes".)

intro.html

• The link online work should be evaluated in the same way as traditional forms of academic scholarship, which originally pointed to http://bsuvc.bsu.edu/~00gjsiering/netoric/CATALOG.96B, is to the log of a conversation at Netoric's Tuesday Cafe entitled "Online versus Print Publications: Various Issues." (tc102996.log), where these issues and arguments were discussed online.

• The link "Evaluating Computer-Related Work in the Modern Languages: Draft Guidelines Prepared by the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research" originally pointed to http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/mla.guidelines.html, which, basically, states that online work should be evaluated using the same categories as other kinds of traditional academic work and that it is the candidate's responsibility to show how such online work fits into existing categories.

• The link Rhetnet originally pointed to http://www.missouri.edu/~rhetnet/, the home page for the online journal, RhetNet, an example of Web publication as conversation that is difficult to fit within existing categories of academic publication.

• The link "playing" originally pointed to http://lrc.csun.edu:8888/400, the home page for "Jester's MOOn" at DaMOO. The intent in including this link is to show a site that discusses as well as epitomizes the idea that so many people have of the work we do online as "playing with computers." I don't argue, of course, that what we're doing is "play"; I DO argue that "play" cannot also be valuable as scholarship, as learning, as teaching. :)

justify.html

• The link fact that the "text" in these spaces is not inscribed in any permanent medium, originally pointed to http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/papers/cyberprop.html , the online version of the author's paper, "CyberProperty: Copyright, Citation, and the World Wide Web," which discusses how texts that may not be "permanent" have not been included under current copyright laws.

• The link Agrippa: A Book of the Dead", originally pointed to http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/htmldocs/agrippa.html , the text of a "book" by William Gibson and artist Dennis Ashbaugh, which, although disguised as a mild-mannered traditional text, ceases to exist upon being read. This book, then, is an example of the ephemeral nature of all text, both traditional print as well as hypertext.

• The link DaMOO, originally pointed to http://lrc.csun.edu:8888, the home page for DaMOO, where there is a link to the Jester's Meetings referenced in the text, as well as information about the MOO and how to connect to it.

• The link Argos, originally pointed to http://argos.evansville.edu/about.htm, a specialized search engine which promises to return only hits which have been deemed "valuable" as scholarship by a team of peer reviewers.

value.html

• The link "Kiwi #164.", which originally pointed to http://lrc.csun.edu:8888/164, is to the home page of "Kiwi," a MOO character at DaMOO and my online persona. The purpose of including this link is to question our idea of what constitutes "scholarly publication."

• The link ongoing one, which originally pointed to http://lrc.csun.edu:8888/1918, links to the text of "MOO Jesters Get Serious," an online "publication" in DaMOO. The publication here is not static or permanent (see "CyberProperty: Copyright, Citation, and the World Wide Web").

• The link , which originally pointed to http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/papers/rhetoric.html, links to the online text of a paper originally presented at the Florida College English Association conference, February 1997, which discusses the need to reinvent our conception of writing and rhetoric in the face of changes in the mode of communication (i.e., technology).

works.html

• The link "Walker/ACW Style Sheet", which originally pointed to http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html, is a shameless plug by the author for her Style Sheet for Citation of Electronic Sources.

  Other links on this page are self-explanatory.