Kate Hayles‘ keynote here at The Future of Electronic Literature (ELO2007) discusses why literature departments and programs should and in fact need to incorporate electronic literature in their curriculum. Here are my notes from her talk.

From a course at MIT called From Print to Digital: Technologies of the World, I found the following papers that I really want to read. Grafton, Anthony. “Introduction to the AHR Forum: How Revolutionary Was the Print Revolution?” American Historical Review 107 […]

Crablaw’s Maryland Weekly: Take Back the Blog! Host Page “The Take Back the Blog! Blogswarm supports the rights of women to participate fully in all aspects of our society, including specifically online in the world of blogging but indeed everywhere and at […]

Heikki HolmÂs linked to a report about how Norway grants short visit visas to family members in comparison to other Schengen countries (for instance, Norway refuses 54% of Pakistani visitors visas, which is much higher than Schengen), and I discovered to my […]

15-inch MacBook Pro Battery Exchange Program I’m only getting an hour and ten minutes or so out of the battery of my MacBook Pro, which truly sucks while travelling. Turns out the batteries sold when I bought my computer are faulty… (tags: […]

Here are the slides for my bit of the panel I’m doing with Scott Rettberg and Nick Montfort on Appropriation and Collaboration in Digital Writing. Scott and Nick (who are also GrandTextAuto‘s representatives here at MiT5) will talk more about artistic/writerly collaboration […]

Right now, Mike Newman is talking about The Show with ze frank, which was an immensely popular daily video log that ran for a year (though I never heard of it before). He just played this short video of ze frank talking […]

Adj¯? anonymitet – Kultur – NRK Nyheter “Framtida tilh¯rer de som har et sosialt liv p nettet. SÂkalte sosiale nettverkstjenester har eksplodert i popularitet, og Facebook er den heteste arenaen for ¯yeblikket. Her er nesten ingenting hemmelig eller for privat.” Not sure […]