How do large corporations impact the environment
A study conducted by Trucost, a London-based consulting group, recently assessed the environmental use, damage, and loss by 3,000 of the world’s largest corporations.
The study draws conclusions and information from eight years of study, and was commissioned by the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment and the United Nations [...]
Practically speaking, I’m finding verification and term and concept searching in the classroom quite handy. I encourage laptop and smart device use. Today we had to look up some questionable statists in an article from a student paper, finding interesting issues to spring from. The laptops and the cell phones are an [...]
February 26, 2010 – 6:51 pm
This is a typical (real) story. S goes to the PCP for Ailment A and Ailment A proves too much for the PCP (Primary Care Physician). So the PCP refers S to a Specialist. Maybe it’s a hernia, maybe some strange growth inside or out. S goes to the Specialist and [...]
February 13, 2010 – 9:42 am
Here’s a view of my hypertext fiction Life for Cadif, Life for Juanita, which is being readied for reading across multiple devices, primarily the iPhone:
A larger view
February 9, 2010 – 5:50 pm
Matthew Hunte via Twitter provides me this interesting examination of Roberto Bolaño oeuvre.
It was brilliant. I couldn’t stop laughing. It was a game but also a joke, a humongous joke. I felt gratified. I was anxious to read more from him. I needed a new hit, so I went to the library and took [...]
February 2, 2010 – 7:44 pm
This semester (as time for me is broken into semesters) I’ll be working on taking a few documents through a multiplatform publishing work flow. The first objective will be take all the Leon stories from the 100 Days project and make them available on mobile, e-reader, and standard screen.
The core technologies are HTML, [...]
January 12, 2010 – 8:22 am
Clay Shirky writes
As we know from arXiv.org, the 20th century model of publishing is inadequate to the kind of sharing possible today. As we know from Wikipedia, post-hoc peer review can support astonishing creations of shared value. As we know from the search for Mersenne Primes, whole branches of mathematical exploration are now best taken [...]
January 12, 2010 – 6:59 am
Over the past several weeks I’ve been watching Journalism, the Humanities, and the Marketplace wonder about itself. We have Tiger Woods to watch and now a variety of gripes about the Edwards’ and “what was really going on.” The news this morning is a round table expressing justifications for the story. Nothing [...]
January 5, 2010 – 7:22 pm
Stacey Mason at HTLit asks an interesting question:
And then it occurred to me: Perhaps for the first time, we’re moving into narrative media that are not backwards-compatible. The written word can be spoken, the printed word written, movies can be translated to books, but games and hypertext narrative don’t go backwards.
I disagree but on nuanced [...]
January 5, 2010 – 6:55 pm
Via Nick Montfort, we have Pall Thayer’s Microcodes, a wonderful presentation of micro programs. My favorite is Two of love:
}else{
sleep(22) && print “fun”;
}
Question: is Thayer’s work compatible with micro fiction or short poetry on the literary side. Intense. I love it
December 27, 2009 – 8:09 pm
The weekend incidents on flights tell a strange story. Here’s a bit from McCLatchey on the Sunday incident:
The latest scare aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 involved what the airline described as a “verbally disruptive” passenger and triggered an examination of baggage on the Detroit tarmac to determine if there were explosives on the plane.
Although [...]
December 21, 2009 – 10:59 am
Alan Atkisson on Copenhagen
The world will never be the same.
But it’s the way that the world will never be the same that interests me, for the events of the past two weeks in Copenhagen signal not just a change in global climate politics, but a change in global politics, period. The primary outcome of these [...]
December 21, 2009 – 8:56 am
Critical message from the Otto team:
OTTO, the Tunxis Art and Literary Journal, is seeking submissions from all members of the Tunxis community for the 2010 issue due out in April.
Submit your work by December 31 via email to otto dot tunxis at gmail dot com. Submit literature (creative or expository) as a Word or [...]
December 19, 2009 – 4:07 pm
Susan Gibb’s Blueberries is up at the New River Review.
Sometimes I don’t wash myself for two days after making love. I’m afraid that if I rinse off the lingering scent of sex that I will disappear into the clearness of the water. That place where all the other men in my life have evaporated.
The story [...]
That Night I Wandered on my Homeward Way (DrunkenBoat 10)
100 Days: 100 Poems, Summer 2008
Canavan’s ‘Avatar’ and the War of Genres
Just a bit of Gerry Canavan on Avatar and the question of genre, re science fiction
In the beginning Avatar seems to situate itself firmly within this generic mode, with a group of scientists and mercenaries from Earth who have arrived on Pandora in spaceships to study the natives and drill for valuable minerals (not necessarily [...]