NRD Kit (New reality Development Kit) is a network tool for production and publishing of media contents. NRD Kit also educates its users and content recipients on difference between representation of data and data per se, as well as on importance of knowing and accessing an original program code.
NRD Kit users are news and stories producers. They use NRD Kit in order to specifically attract attention of an ordinary, benevolent internet user. Regarding use and input of the new contents, NRD Kit is very simple.
Dominant culture of interaction between man and machine favours - and aims at - ignorance of the ordinary user. Working together with his/hers insatiable hunger for sensations, it creates prerequisites for predictable reception of the contents formatted via NRD Kit.
To format its contents, NRD Kit uses address space and layout of the existent pages. Credibility, authenticity, objectivity and neutrality represented by their layout and name provide space of play and creation for the NRD Kit users. Possibility of their mutual hypertextual intertwining, actually very rare, also provides a chance to experience these established bigwigs's identity in a completely new fashion. The most popular web browser running at today's most popular operative system has been selected to mediate in this process.
NRD Kit is a freeware published under GNU GPL at http://www.picigin.netand has been developed at GNU/Linux, written in Python and based on Twisted network framework and Nevow template engine. Adding new specimen into the base of updatable internet pages should prove a relatively easy task even for the beginners in web technology.
The first interactive story in the base is NRD Van's 'homage' to a subversive media art, its theoretical articulation and – above all – the hacker culture in general. The story originated in February 2001.