THE REINY DAY GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY A [hopefully] brief introduction: The web only exists through hyperlinking, and there are myriad lists of links on the web. I, myself, have had one such list online since 1996. I created it as my universally accessible bookmarks file because I had no computer of my own at the time. As 2000 approached, amidst the proliferation of internet commerce sites came another phenomenon: the explosion of weblogs (also called blogs and portals) that recommended places to go on the web. I used to include links to interesting, amusing, and beautiful web content in my diary (Rachel's Daily Diary), but I though it would be much cleaner to store them all in one place, and several people urged me to start a weblog (mostly due to my obsessive list making tendencies). I find the most successful link lists to be those that are thematic: Slashdot caters to UNIX/LINUX users and general computer geeks looking for news while the Naked Eye weblog was geared towards readers and writers (of online journals). I also think link lists work best when they are most heavily annotated. I have a particular penchant for technology. My passions for computers, film, new media, pop culture, and art are continually overlapping. Though I throw in the occasion link for its purely amusing or beautiful content, the aim is to introduce a wide web audience to various technologies they might not otherwise encounter. Chatterbots [see issue #1], MOOs, web based art [see The Reiny Day Guide To Web Based Art], virtual biota, the effects of postmodernism and (post)structuralism on technology, and automatons will make their way into the Guide. Since this site is still evolving, I don't have plans solidified for it yet, but one idea I am jazzed about is having guest feature articles, because there are certain technologies I have no experience with, such as ICQ and radiosity. If you want to write a guest feature, let me know at writer2007@reinyday.com. ISSUE #0000   |   tech archive   |   ISSUE #0001