Stepping back from the education and presentation sphere, this also makes me gasp at the possibilites for fractal fiction – think about a story that at any particular point you could zoom in on; instead of following the larger story arc, drilling into the details of a particular character, a particular back story. This could of course end up looking like some sort of amateurish, nightmarish ‘choose your own adventure’ scenario, the actual implementation is obviously critical here. But this metaphor of ‘virtual canvas’ sits really well with my latest thinking about the ‘topography of the net’ – that it is both a specific set of terrains, and yet an infinitely expandable set as well (any signal can be inserted into any other signal, turtles all the way down). You know what I mean, I’m rambling – sheesh, I am supposed to be on holidays today! Anyways, thanks for these expanded notes. I so wish I could have been at this session at NMC (though the entire conference this year sounded a real treat)