I just ordered Noah & Saskia, which is an Australian kids’ television series about a British boy and an Australian girl, both 14, who meet online when Saskia discovers that Noah (or “Max” as his avatar in the graphic chat world they’re […]

I want a secret blog. An anonymous blog where I can write all those things that today I can’t write, not here. Oh, I’ve tried, don’t worry. But you see every time, after three days of careful design and meticulous phrasing of […]

Via the Shifted Librarian, I see that some universities in the States have started offering legal downloads of music and videos for their students. Some unis charges students a couple of dollars a month, while it’s free for students at Cornell. The […]

Ooh. Rohit Gupta isn’t selling his novel for money, he’s selling it, phrase by phrase, for links. You can read Le Spirale Fantastique without paying a link, don’t worry, but look: I’m writing a blognovel. If you like a quotation from this […]

It is obvious that someone needs to write an article titled “Why Have There Been No Great Electronic Authors?” Or perhaps “Why Is There No Great Electronic Literature?” The article would not attempt to answer the question as journalists tend to expect […]

If you love the idea of NaNoWrMo (write a novel in a month) you might want to sign up for the NOVEL project. Three authors will be locked into transparent cubicles for a month with no contact with the world (well, a […]

What a frightening example of remediation: the blog remix of Olia Lialina’s classic net art narrative My Boyfriend Came Back from the War. The original piece is an authentic 1996-style hypertext that uses frames wonderfully to gradually unveil an uncertain narrative constructed […]

I don’t think this word was there the day before yesterday – or if it was, I must have walked past so preoccupied I didn’t see it. Yesterday evening it shone in reflections of yellow street lights. Tr??st means comfort and it’s […]

There’s more interesting discussion of Richard Powers’s email piece at Grand Text Auto.

In a comment to a post of BitchPhD’s where she wonders whether or not to stay in academia, Pronoia writes of a fascinating way to figure out which choice is right for you: When my wife was in discernment for the convent […]