Playable Communications
I’m on the long train(s) ride home from Kent after a one-day digital fiction workshop with Andy Campbell (Dreaming Methods). It’s the first time I’ve met Andy IRL – great to put a face to … Read more
First, a note: This blog is moving away from the specifics of my PhD research and experiences. If anyone was interested in those, well…sorry. The work is progressing, and it’s a delicate balance! Best to … Read more
One of my supervisors is a big champion of the free and open source. To you, I offer my apologies. I tried. I really did. I got to know GIMP well enough to actually use … Read more
One week. Seven glorious days. The equivalent, for me, of a snow-in. I got s**t done, people. My husband signed up to attend a conference in Erice, Sicily for a week in the end of … Read more
Finding a Web-builder First, I’m not a giant corporation with tons of cash to spend to hire a web developer to create the all-singing, all-dancing web extravaganza I’d envisioned. I’m a broke PhD student, struggling … Read more
Features But what kind of website? I could build a simple flash site that takes my readers through my stories click by click, the way Inanimate Alice does. It’s a pretty simple option, really, and … Read more
Deciding on a Platform This was pretty simple. All it took was my supervisor handing me some CD-ROMs containing the premier examples of electronic writing (all hypertexts in Storyspace). Then me sitting down at my … Read more
I love Spring Break. No teaching. No office hours. No meetings or training sessions. No having to talk to people. I just get to sit in my home office, make my list of tasks for … Read more
I attended the second session (having missed the first due to being brain dead) of the Collaborative Digital Research in the Humanities (CEDAR) postgraduate training program this past weekend. (Don’t ask me about the acronym.) … Read more
First, I’m not a computer geek. I’m an online geek. There’s a big difference. Computer geeks are heroes, for one, because they can bring back my computer from the dead. They can read and write … Read more