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 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 [...]
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 [...]
November 9, 2009 – 8:48 pm
Come to eLit Camp. It’s going to be very cool.
E-Lit Camp is an informal weekend gathering for writers, artists, and programmers currently involved or interested in electronic literature. Work on your projects, give a presentation, collaborate, and learn from others.
If you’re a writer, artist, journalist, coder, or some combination of the above, E-Lit camp [...]
November 6, 2009 – 3:36 pm
1. Open export folder for Cadif
2. Open iPhone and story.css in editor
3. Open Tinderbox file for Cadif (it synthesizes poetry and prose)
4. Pick up on last action before leaving to blow leaves, which was to find individual poem spaces and crowd the stanzas
5. Click note and open html view and [...]
October 11, 2009 – 10:50 am
Roberto Bolano’s novel 2666 is a turbulent structure. The reader may be interested after reading “The Part about Archimboldi” to go back to “The Part about the Critics” to rethink the timing of events–when do the critics venture to Mexico in their hunt for Archimboldi? And where is Archimboldi while the critics are [...]
October 10, 2009 – 7:42 pm
I’ve been thinking about sonnet sequences. Why? Because I’ve been thinking a lot about links, linking methods and aesthetics, and other forms of possible digital signatures. Here’s what I mean by signature. Most people who’ve read classic sonnets can tell the difference between Shakespeare and Sidney:
With what sharp checks I in [...]
September 12, 2009 – 12:14 pm
I find this kind of project incredibly interesting, as the underlying hypermedia structure makes for a fine cognitive simulacrum. Thanks to Tiltfactor for the link.
The Tree of Life Web Project
. . . is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the [...]
August 19, 2009 – 10:43 am
The following image is a snapshot of my 100 Days Tinderbox “Published” adornment, which backgrounds the monthly containers for the project. With the help of Mark Anderson, I now have each month displaying total word counts.
The graphs are also an indication of daily word count jumps. One of the ideas I’ll be looking [...]
At the linkspace Mrs. Diamonte in The Dumpster, after following Danny and Mike, everything feels clean. The reader is prepared.
The link “asleep” has narrative meaning. But does everything depend on Mr. Diamonte’s and Mike’s fear?
Here’s today’s story plotting by word length in Tinderbox, using this bit of code as a rule: $Pattern=”plot($WordCount)”.
Considering length hasn’t been much of an issue, as the internal questions about plot and character have taken precedence. Day to day writing prohibits length, but the upper parameter of length hasn’t been much more than [...]
Here’s something I’d written about a year ago on units of meaning. It’s fresh in the mind again:
Kafka’s The Trial never grows stale. The Kafkan, however, as a descriptive modifier, has become a cliche. The Borgesian suffers similar potential for emptiness, while the fictions live on with every encounter. And what political commentator hasn’t [...]
We’ve hit the 25th day of 100 Days, which has been relentless work. I’m curious to know how other people are working, what they’re working with, how they’re working through problems, and what their “workbenches” look like.
Day 25 for me saw a return to Computer Leon, who persists for me as a fun and [...]
I’m driving full force into Alyn Shipton’s A New History of Jazz, although it is tough to read in bed due to size. But the size is worth the trouble. John Timmons and I have been doing more than a semester’s worth of work on the history and listening to lots of music [...]
George Landow concludes this about canons:
Doing away with the canon leaves one not with freedom but with hundreds of thousands of undiscriminated and hence unnoticeable works, with works we cannot see or notice or read. We must therefore learn to live with them, appreciate them, benefit from them, but, above all, remain suspicious of them.
The [...]
That Night I Wandered on my Homeward Way (DrunkenBoat 10)
100 Days: 100 Poems, Summer 2008
