I just found this interactive map of St. Petersburg Russia that reminded me of Carpenter’s online projects. It is not on the same level of complexity I think, but I do think that considering it is on a “normal” website (meaning it is a high traffic, mainstream consumption locale) what we see is a move from the average web user towards being capable of navigating through what was cutting edge in Carpenter’s first forays into use of webspace and media.
I said I didn’t think it was on the same level of complexity…but now that I’ve played with it I’ve changed my opinion. Although islands is still much more ingenious, this Dostoevsky one competes with Carpenter’s earlier work on in absentia. Carpenter still has my heart, but it’s nice to see some of her ideas on what webspace can achieve with physical space and literary space and our navigation through it is catching on and becoming more widely used and acceptable.