Steve Ersinghaus

From ReadWrite:
In short, Obama has begun crowdsourcing the political agenda. And when it comes right down to it, isn’t that what democracy is supposed to be about anyway? A government of the people, by the people, for the people?
A few weeks ago when Gartner hypothesized that “social networks will complement, and may replace, some government [...]

Lots of information is up on the Hypertext 09 conference, Torino, Italy. All paper and workshop calls are up and descriptions of the tracks. I’m serving on the Hypertext and Community program track.
The Hypertext and Community track will explore, examine, and reflect upon social cyberculture in electronic media, ranging from literary fiction and [...]

I’m not really much of a canon thinker.
I’ve moved back to Astrid Ensslin’s Canonizing Hypertext after somewhat of a hiatus and a few moments of time to get back the subject. In any event, Ensslin has supplied the reader with a few criteria by which to judge readings, one of them being [...]

This is not a post on strength or the ability to leap tall building, but conjectural guesswork on digital systems. In this post, I did a little bit on next-gen Storyspace but I’d like to keep this thought going. This morning, as I was thinking about some paperwork on course equivalencies, it struck [...]

All of the above, but that’s not much help, and I’ve been a failure at initiative and actual production.
I suggest a wiki to start. An initial project would be to start collecting links to important articles and student work, links to systems, theory and critical ideas. Then a works collection and [...]

From Wendell Piez on digital humanities
This takes us much further, quite close to the essence of it. By implication, in Burke’s telling, the proper object of Digital Humanities is what one might call “media consciousness” in a digital age, a particular kind of critical attitude analogous to, and indeed continuous with, a more general media [...]

The next ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia will take place in Torino, Italy, June 29 through July 1. Here are important dates:

* Submission deadline: Feb. 2nd, 2009
* Notification to authors: March 16th, 2009
Technical Program Committee:
* General Co-Chairs: Ciro Cattuto (ISI [...]

Mark Bernstein asks interesting questions about Coover links and in doing so provides some suggestions for Hypertext 09 papers.
What are Coover links: pretty elegant:
If the dog is going to jump over
the moon
or
into the next century
Such a hypertext grammar or logic develops the reader’s choice and traversal in all kinds of interesting possibilities, especially if B [...]

I’m with this:
But we’ll be here, and we’ll be paying attention, and we’re sure going to be reading a lot of Web pages and using a lot of new software. That’s the audience you want, and it’s all the audience you need.

A wonderful conversation here between Shelley Jackson and Vito Acconci at The Believer.
From the perspective of, say, his Mur Island—a floating island in Graz, Austria, that is simultaneously bridge, theater, café, and playground—Acconci’s early poems look like odd little landscapes, with corridors and columns, through which the reader can stroll. Mur Island, in turn, looks [...]

Susan Gibb is still on the case with Kundera and hypertext. She writes:
But in hypertext, we can form loops that return us to these points of betrayal–or change, choice, etc.–and from that point, decide upon a new tactic to choose another unknown path, still significantly different from the original choice.
in response to [...]

Susan Gibb, the great lit blogger, editor, and reviewer, has begun her exploration of Milan Kundera’s novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and his relationship with notions of hypertext. This is going to be truly healthy and exciting.
She writes:
While Kundera does not mention choice, it exists in Tomas’ selection of restaurant, time of arrival, [...]

Here’s the same old circle
Some Web evangelists say children should be evaluated for their proficiency on the Internet just as they are tested on their print reading comprehension. Starting next year, some countries will participate in new international assessments of digital literacy, but the United States, for now, will not.
Clearly, reading in print and on [...]

Jesse Abbot writing hypertext poetry.

A nice set of courses on hypertext by Deena Larsen. It’s a backbone syllabus!