Google, gmail and Blogspot.com

Have all incorporated...this means integrated features that make using gmail (& chat presumably) and blogger together an easy process...i am going to experiment now.

something to consider amongst ourselves is the techpendulum tendencies toward expansion and individuation and condensation and multi-featuring. We are obviously in a trend toward the condensed and multiply featured user object.

would love to hear from us all...j

Sourcing Digital Texts

Hi all,

so...here are some thoughts/places for readings for the syllabus and for us to explore:

http://www.altx.com/ Mark Amerika's online collect

http://www.eastgate.com/ReadingRoom.html the original publisher of hypertext lit.

http://english.ttu.edu/Kairos/ a great journal bc also concerned with Comp, Tech & pedagogy

http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/tirwebhome.htm the journal for such e-literati-ish things

Also, to create a link on blog...1)highlight the desired text; 2)hit control+shift+a; and 3) enter URL

Looking forward to discoveries & syllabus ideas from all.

be well, jamie

Second Life

A friend recently told me about this site, Second Life, where people create alternate identities for themselves. It seems to be like a game, but not. Wikipedia has an informative article about it (apparently there are 2 million users). Is anyone familiar with it? I thought it might make for an interesting class discussion/assignment, but I haven't looked through the site yet.

CFP on Digital Archiving

Digital Archiving

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be
held at (dis)junctions 2007: Malappropriation Nation
at the University of California Riverside’s 14th
Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 6-7,
2007.
Contributors are invited to submit critical works on
digital archiving. These papers can examine the roles
new media and new technologies play in the archiving
of literary texts. How does the translation of a text
from print culture into the digital realm effect its
reading and reception? How does it allow for a
re-imagining of the text? How does digital archiving
create a new mode of access to texts? What are the
tensions around the creation of such archives?

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be e-mailed to
helen.lovejoy@sbcglobal.net by January 5, 2007 (text
in the body of the message; please no attachments).
For more information, please visit the website at
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/
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