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Techno-culture ala Ellen Ullman -- Update 2003 for "The Bug"

Ellen Ullman writes uniquely about the software industry -- technology as well as people. Her new novel, "The Bug", adds drama and suspense to the reflections from her book "Close to the Machine" and past essays in Salon, Harpers, Wired, and NYTimes. This web of 450 URLs interlinks annotated URLs on the author, her work, and its influences on our thinking about technology's influence on people and vice versa.
 

Click a pie slice to go to a website that links to Ullman's Salan articles.

This web was created by searching multiple engines then browsing, filtering, ranking, and publishing URLs using twURL, a web power tool. A metaphorical explanation of this strategy is "Tightening the Web" (see our "twURLed World" blog for other metaphors). Jump into the web anywhere then link from site to site, down to details about a URL, and outside the twURLed web to the page itself.

Comment from a Software Engineering professor: Is "the bug" real? Actually, it's a great bug, showing a very common programming error that should have been caught before it caused so much damage. The setting is mid-1980s, in the early days of the mouse and menus,  but today's languages and software engineering practices and personnel capabilities aren't much better.

Table of Contents and Good Starter Pages

 
• Domains  -- URLs organized by domains and sites, e.g. Salon.com, publisher of many Ullman articles
• lKeywords  -- Commonly used terms, e.g. cyberculture and  Close to the Machine
• Top 10 -- Sites with most linked in (authorities) and most links out (hubs)

• Decisions  -- twURL author ranking of great, good, relevant URLs
• Links -- Table of linked sites
• Details of all URLs - valuations, keywords, annotations, links, sources, search engines, HTML meta