INTERNATIONAL HYPERTEXT COMPETITION

Alt-X and trAce are pleased to announce their first International
Hypertext Competition. We offer a single prize of One Thousand English
Pounds for the best hypertext site on the web.

Deadline for entries: December 31st 1998

What is hypertext?

Ted Nelson, who invented the term hypertext over 30 years ago, described
it as "non-sequential writing–text that branches and allows choices to
the reader, best read at an interactive screen. As popularly conceived,
this is a series of text chunks connected by links which offer the
reader different pathways." We prefer to see it as "multi-sequential"
writing but are generally comfortable with his description here. Also,
we're open to work that integrates other media as well (sound, images,
Java, etc.) but it should be primarily text-based and easily accessible
from the average web-surfer's home-computer.

What kinds of hypertext entries are you looking for?

First of all, they have to be web-based. On the entry form, please be
sure to include the URL (web address) so that we know where to look for
your project. Hypertexts submitted on disk are not acceptable. We will
be judging the entries against the following criteria:

+ High quality writing

+ Excellent overall conceptual design and hyperlink structure

+ Ease of use for the average web-surfer (if we can't read it on our
home machines then we'll just move on to the next one!)

To enter, point your web browser to: