Christy Dena has a wonderfully useful post on the differences between her approach to crossmedia or polymorphic narrative, and my approach to what I’ve called distributed narrative. Isn’t the web awesome, letting us find each other like this, now, as we’re figuring […]

Anjo Anjewierden ran a script identifying words used uniquely (kind of, read the post to see what that means) in particular blogs. Which would you rather read: Jill Walker: electronic literature, grant, hypertext, new media, wireless. Danah Boyd: abuse, adult, battle, blog […]

You could invent realms of poetry and symbolism from this photo, if you wished. The truth? A walk, comfortably hand in hand, exploring for just a short while before returning to work. Stop, I said. We need to take a photograph of […]

Last spring she stayed at our house. My daughter slept soundly but Shyrin woke at midnight. “Don’t worry, darling”, I told her, holding her close, “it’s OK.” A few weeks earlier her mother had fetched her at nine because she couldn’t fall […]

Donna Leishman is now Dr Leishman! Her PhD thesis was practice-based, consisting of a visual narrative, The Possession of Christian Shaw, which is discussed and considered in terms of theory, practice, and feedback from a number of “expert readers”, of which I […]

Tim Etchell’s Surrender Control back in 2001 was “art”, but when the people behind This Diary Will Change Your Life do pretty much exactly the same thing and charge for it, it’s a “mobile service”. Sign up at This Mobile Will Change […]

Semester’s started. Sort of. Orientation meetings are next week, and teaching starts the week after. I’ve started planning the schedule, of course. There are things I could write about. But I am really not in much of a blogging mood. I expect […]

Shyrin‘s photo was on the front page of the newspaper this morning. I showed my daughter, and explained that nobody knows where they are, and they were near where the big waves came. She cried and cried and then said she didn’t […]

My eight-year-old’s classmate Shyrin is officially missing in Phuket. So is her mother and her mother’s boyfriend. Look, here are their photos. I don’t know what to say. But I have to say something. Soon we’ll have to tell my daughter. Honey, […]

If you happen to be in Philadelphia this evening at 8 pm, go to the Slought Foundation to listen to Scott Rettberg and Nick Montfort in conversation with Johanna Drucker, Christian B??k, and Jean-Michel Rabat?©. The Implementation exhibition is opening!