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implementing london

We didn’t see any Brit Stick Lit in London, but some Implementation was performed.

machine language

At Many to many David Weinberger notes that people appear to be using fewer human stop words when searching – “search engines are training us how to talk to them”. He suggests that SMS abbreviations might be an example of the same […]

can’t log on

One of the pieces I enjoyed seeing at Incubation was Jim Andrew‘s doodle-like morhping of a phone message left by Alan Sondheim for Randy Adams. Alan can’t log on to a site they’re using, and the desperation in his voice is familiar […]

ELINOR is born!

Late in March, I was surfing around the Nordic Council’s funding info when I noticed that Nordbok funds projects to further literatury projects in collaboration between the Nordic countries – and the deadline was the next day. Figuring I might as well […]

lonely

I’m home and it’s dark and loneliness is seeping in. My daughter’s going on holidays with her dad and my sweetheart’s on a plane and won’t be here for weeks. My neighbour died last night, cracking jokes, her sister told me, and […]

they want papers

Leonardo’s special issue on New Media Poetics and the Digital Prose. Creative and critical works, submit abstract and other material by August 15. Book of critical essays on projects affiliated with the trAce online writing centre. Proposals (2-300 word abstracts) due October […]

left incubation

At lunchtime we chatted and buzzed and hived and in the afternoon I blogged and at the workshop I built and at dinner and afterwards talked with even more different people, thoroughly enjoying myself. This morning I rose early and flew home […]

gleaned

I like seeing the works these artists and writers have created. I gather nuggets of information from discussions and conversations. There’s a phone company in Britain that will let you leave text messages for your friends that they’ll only receive if they […]

disconnected

There’s no wireless here. When I whispered last night in an analogue backchannel to the performances (beer glass in hand but the room dully turned towards the stage and the tiny screens, no one sharing their experiences) a man turned to hush […]