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 […]

[In which I steal an entire blogpost from Networked Performance, a very useful blog detailing new works in brief. Some people steal whole posts routinely and call it reblogging. I’m not convinced that it’s cool but I’m doing it anyway right now.] […]

I mentioned Richard Powers’s email story, They Come in a Steady Stream Now, last week, enjoying it but not being very impressed. Nick, on the other hand, likes it very much. He has several interesting points in his post at GtxA. For […]

Wow. I’ve been thinking my web design and web aesthetics students next semester need to use wikis. But I’d worried wikis were hard to set up. Well, no. The Wikipedia’s entry on wiki software recommended QwikiWiki as extremely easy to install, no […]

Goodness. I had no idea that ?• blogge (Norwegian for “to blog”) is also perfectly good (though somewhat rare) Norwegian for piercing a fish with a sharp instrument until blood runs from it. It comes from old Norse, blo??ga, and is (possibly) […]