At Tunxis Community College we’re always looking for ways to provide students opportunity for challenge. In a course titled New Media Perspectives, the introductory course in Tunxis’s New Media Communication program, we employ Tinderbox, software developed by Eastgate Systems. This powerful software provides students flexible methods of visually illustrating relationships, physically linking ideas, and developing [...]
It’s always interesting after a course has run to think back through and consider content, method, and production. New Media Perspectives has seen several versions and we’re really just hitting our stride in the course. We cover several issues: 1. An overview of new media principles and examples we think are generalized and reflect digital [...]
We did some iPad tests today with That Night. Some basic content filtering and attention to CSS3 makes making for the device pretty simple, in fact, so simple that the writer can concentrate on content. The fonts are a little small, but Juanita and Cadif will fix that issue. That’s a plus. I like this [...]
The past few years have seen different themes. Last year we were talking and studying jazz music and its relationship to issues of performance, creativity, history, hypertext, and new media. This semester, we’ve picked up a new or more elaborate theme: film, new media, hypertext, and performance: we’ve gone from Roberto Bolaño through to Anthony [...]
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, XML, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 reduce [...]
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 in Santa [...]
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 myself am shent, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 a [...]
That Night I Wandered on my Homeward Way (DrunkenBoat 10)
100 Days: 100 Poems, Summer 2008
