I found the Introduction of Chapter 1 interesting. When you view this clip of the Phoenix Mars Mission and the Mission scope it makes you wonder about the mission failures that aren't publicly documented.
This is my favorite of the websites that supplement my understanding of remediation because it does a great job of explaining the subject. It gives great examples of movies and events that involved remediation that I would know and this helped me understand it more.
D#11, HW#3--
I thought this was a great example of remediation because it explains remediation and then uses different examples from movies to help people understand the meaning.
This article analyzing Bolter, Grusin book has fianlly helped me "get it." For some reason this was hard for me to wrap my mind around, but the way it is re-stated here is better for me.
This is a writing from Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin that defines remediation, hypermediacy and immediacy. It has very good descriptions written in a way we can relate to by bringing in examples that are familiar to us like the movie Jurassic Park and the Pathfinder landing on Mars.