ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title> softopia </title> <style type = "text/css"> body { font-family:"gill sans"; font-size:110%; color: teal; background: silver; padding:10px; } a { font-size:1.3em; } </style> </head> <body> <center> <span style="color:green">www</span> <span style="color:maroon">.</span> <span style="color:blue">publicwriting</span> <span style="color:navy">.</span> <span style="color:navy">net</span> <br> <tt style="color:white">(formerly softopia.demon.co.uk)</tt> <br> <p style="font-size:1.8em"> softopia: <br> <span style="color:navy"> my public writing place</span> </p><p> softopia: an invented word meaning utopian software <br>or a new culture that is softer (and i hope less inhuman) <br>than is the mechanised society we inherit <br> </p> <img src="louvre.jpeg" width="360" height="270" alt=""> <br> <br><a href="/3.0/entries_in_softopia_3.0/index.html">what's new?</a> <br> <br> recent entries in a <span style="color:navy">digital diary</span> (or blog) <br>written outdoors (or in indoor public places) on a handheld computer... <br>about whatever is happening at the moment of writing... <br>there are now several hundred pages... <br> <br> <a style="font-size:1em" href="/3.0/entries_in_softopia_3.0/dd_archive.html">digital diary archive</a> <br> <br> <br> <p style="font-size:1.5em"> <span style="color:gray">the</span> <span style="color:purple">world</span> <span style="color:gray">seen</span> <span style="color:navy">as</span> <span style="color:navy">poetry</span> <span style="color:green">and</span> <span style="color:olive">colours</span> <br> <span style="color:blue">thanks</span> <span style="color:magenta">to</span> <span style="color:red">the</span> <span style="color:maroon">imaginary</span> <span style="color:yellow">rock</span> <span style="color:yellow">foundation</span>* <br> <span style="color:magenta">and</span> <span style="color:olive">everything</span> <br> </p> <p align="right"> <span style = "font-size:.7em;color:#669900">*<a href="/2.2/irf.html">and the open secret <br>of the foundation of the foundation</a></span> </p> <br> <br> <br> <div> <span style="float: left;"><a href="./fictions.html">fictions (17)</a></span> <span style="float: right; "><a href="./poetics.html">poetics (11)</a></span> </div> <br><br> <div style = "width:60%; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"> <div style=" float: left; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0%; width: 0px; border-top: 20px solid silver; border-right: 20px solid grey; "> </div> <div style=" float: right; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0%; width: 0px; border-top: 20px solid silver; border-left: 20px solid grey; "> </div> </div> <br> <br> <span style="font-size:2.0em;"> <a href="./a_to_z.html">a to z</a> </span> <br>an alphabetical index of 'parts of a culture' <br>ideas, poetry, fiction, computer art... <br>anything that could be part of a changed culture to come... <br>close to 100 items <br> some re-appear in the 4 surrounding branches <br> <br> <br> <br> </center> <div style = "width:60%; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"> <div style=" float: left; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0%; width: 0px; border-top: 20px solid grey; border-left: 20px solid silver; "> </div> <div style=" float: right; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0%; width: 0px; border-top: 20px solid grey; border-right: 20px solid silver; "> </div> </div> <br><br> <div> <span style="float: left;"><a href="./xdm.html">xdm (15)</a> <br>expanded design methods <br>so that everyone affected by industrial culture <br>can take creative part in its design </span> </div><span style="float: right; "> <a href="./theories.html">theories (21)</a></span> </div> </div> <center> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><img src="daffodil.jpeg" width="107" height="110" alt=""> <br><a href="/2.2/daffodils.html">daffodil newsletter</a> <br>occasional news and reviews of what's happening in softopia <br> <br> <br> <br><a href="/2.2/websites_i_like.html"> websites i like</a> <br> <br><a href="/history_of_the_website.html">history of this website </a> <br> <br><a href="/biographical_pages.html">biographical pages </a> <br> <br> <br> <br><img src="books_jcj.jpeg" width="200" height="150" alt=""> <br> <br><a href="/2.2/invisible_books.html"> books by (or about) jcj</a> <br> <br> <br><a href="/2.2/collective_cv.html"> collective cv</a> <br> <br><a href="./epigraphs.html"> epigraphs</a> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> from: jcj at publicwriting.net <br> <br> <br>to kay moon and jonathan moberly, with many thanks <br> <br> <br>version 5.0, 1 march 2012 <br> <br> <br> </center> </body> </html>