Know that if you were not able to physically come to class, we would have invited you to come, if we only could have had a little more room. However, there are limits on time (yours and mine), space, and availability. You would have had to pay UT tuition for the chance. The students in the physical class tend to be graduatin g seniors, with a few juniors, most connected with the College of Communication, RTF Dept.

Below is a list of course related background, templates, and resources.

• Course Description
• Grading and Caveats
• Syllabus and Course Schedule
• Course Bibiography
• Overheads and Additional Notes - Coming Soon.
• Jump Point to Newsgroup if your web reader is properly configured. Netscape is best. I still prefer a dedicated newsreader

Materials For the Mud Assignment

• Pages Devoted to Muds in General
  • The Mud Resource Collection. (Lydia Leong, Pennsylvania)
  • Doran's Mudlist (Text version). Remember to use the port number when telneting. Extensive list. (England)
  • "Pages and Pages of MUDs". Some useful links but not extensive. (Chris Jackson, Pennsylvania)
  • Multi User Dimensions at Ludd (Sweden)
  • The Arctic MUD Dimensions Center (Sweden)
  • A Yahoo List of Muds. Has some easy gateways. (Stanford, Calif.)
  • ActLab's Mud Page. Check out the "Jack In" menu. Might be a bit out of date since I have been busy recently. (Austin, Tx.)

• Selected Pages Devoted to Specific Muds
  • Novice's should consider Diversity University (moo.du.net 8888); Lambda Moo (lambda.xerox.com 8888); Jay's House (see below).
  • Jay's House Experimental Web Page.
  • WaxWeb- A"marriage of muds and mosaic (ie. the Web).
  • Muse (Educational Muds). A collection of documents that will make more sense after you visit a place like micromuse.
  • Muds @ Lysator (Sweden). A short page about some well known muds.

• Selected Literature about Muds (Also check links above)
  • Mud Archive (Lauren Burka, Northeastern) Has some classic articles
  • "The dragons ate my homework" by Howard Rheingold and Kevin Kelley (Wired 1.3). Gives a nice overview.
  • Mud Papers by Lynn Cherny
  • Papers from Lambda Moo
  • More papers from Lambda Moo
  • Papers from Media Moo
  • Troy Whitlock's Mu* Documents

• Geodesic Information Infrastructure by Willard Uncapher (=Uncapher 1)
• Placing the Mediascape in the Transnational Cultural Flow: Theorizing the Emerging Global Grassroots Infrastructure by Willard Uncapher (=Uncapher2)
• Magna Carta of Cyberspace by Gilder, Toffler, etc.