Underground and in the net
I spent 3 days in London this weekend, and almost all of it can be classed research. Amazing. Friday was spent entirely on the Underground – no joke, I saw sky only when the trains ...
Digital Humanities
ELD 2.0: A “Card Catalogue” for the Web Generations
The portion of the blogosphere devoted to digital/new media writing and e-publishing is filled with concerns, despairing, and a truckload of theories about how this emerging (emerged?) literary genre is to be organized, recognized, distributed, ...
Ground-up Projects
I stumbled upon an online story a couple of months ago through one of the digital fiction feeds I actually pay attention to. It was a really fun, neat little story, and I subscribed to ...
The Arduino: Bringing Interactivity Out of the Computer
I was invited to sit in on a talk today in the School of Computer Sciences. Yes, I was the only woman there. We won’t dwell on that. What I will dwell on is my ...
Great Writing Conference, 2009
Well, it was exhausting and nerve-wracking, but I gave my first presentation amongst actual professionals in my field today. I barely got the presentation done in time – isn’t that always the case – and ...
Did Somebody Offer a Challenge?
Bruce Sterling over at Wired.com posted eighteen of them for Contemporary Literature. It’s a skeletal overview: a list of statements without background or exploration of any. I’d like to offer a few brief thoughts on ...
Retreating to Write
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 ...
Showcasing the PGs – Totally My Idea
Which I left to more supremely capable people to actually carry out, as is my habit, of course. When I did my MFA, we had a monthly Student Reading Series, which was created during my ...
Oooh, Shiny Conference
Chris Joseph posted today about the Digital Resources for the Arts & Humanities 2009 Conference in Belfast. The abstract submission deadline is two days away, and I sat for an hour trying to come up ...