Bob Stepno’s Red Liner

While plans for BloggerCon are getting interesting, complete with scholarships and a whole day of free meetings for bloggers who aren’t lawyers or software millionaires or media magnates, I made the mistake of getting intrigued by the agenda for another conference — the ACM Hypertext 2003 gathering in Nottingham, U.K., later this month.

One session looks at new genres of works in hypertext scholarship and seems to edge toward blogging, talking about “linked discussions with multiple authors” and “related changes in textual access and self-publication.”

It also would be fun to hear the keynote speech by Ted Nelson in person instead of just reading the notes online, but that’s about all I can afford to do. I got my hopes up, but I was pasting the registration fees into the wrong end of the currency converter.

Hypertext Conference …