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Howard Rheingold defines a virtual or online community as follows: "A virtual community as they exist today is a group of people [sic] who may or may not meet one another face-to-face, and who exchange words and ideas through the mediation of computer bulletin boards and networks. In cyberspace, we chat and argue, engage in intellectual intercourse, perform acts of commerce, exchange knowledge, share emotional support, make plans, brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, find friends and lose them, play games and metagames, flirt, create a little high art and a lot of idle talk. We do everything people do when people get together, but we do it with words on computer screens, leaving our bodies behind. Millions of us have already built communities where our identities comingle and interact electronically, independent of local time or location. The way a few of us live now might be the way a larger population will live, decades hence."
John Coate, "Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community." Copyright 1992 & 1993, revised November 1993. gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/11/Community Katie Hafer, "The World's Most Influential Online Community (And it's Not AOL)." Wired, May 1997, 5(05), p 98-142 David Holmes (Ed), Virtual Politics: Identity and Community in Cyberspace. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999. Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community. New York: Marlowe, 1999 Howard Rheingold, "A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community,"
June 1992. Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993. Royal Van Horn, "Innkeeping On the Web." Phi Delta Kappan, September 1997, pp 93-94.
"Information Design is the practice of gathering,
filtering, and presenting information in accordance with effective design
principles in order to understand --- and communicate to others ---
the essence, the meaning of that information." Professor Edward Tufte of Yale is the author of the three most widely cited and universally admired books on information design. Here are Tufte's descriptions of his works. "The first book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is about pictures of numbers. The second book, Envisioning Information, is about pictures of nouns at least on some days, that is, a map or an aerial photograph shows a lot of nouns lying on the ground. And the new book, Visual Explanations, is about pictures of verbs; how to show motion, dynamics, mechanism, explanation, cause and effect." (http://www.clbooks.com/nbb/tufte.html) Reviewers of these three books, without exception, rate them as "must reads."
http://h-net2.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28513884981758 http://www.salonmagazine.com/march97/tufte970310.html http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/bib/nf/tufte.htm http://www.irf.org/irtufte.html http://www.clbooks.com/nbb/tufte.html
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