Wowsers and sainted oily fish, this project fills me with excitement: A digitally-augmented chapbook, printed with barcode-like images readable by…
Eight Bit Beckett
Lit snob? Gamer geek? Perhaps both? Rumor has it that the developers are working on a version of Company for…
New Work for New Devices
At the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks ago, at least 100 new tablets were revealed. A minority of these…
Writing for Publication/Display Formats
Amazon recently announced a new, shorter format for its ereader called Kindle Singles (cue mental image of floppy yellow-orange cheese…
Plugins, Extensions–for text! Not hair!
I get a little thrill upon discovering a new place where literature can appear. From eBooks on the iPad to…
The family showroom
Guy Ben Ner’s excellent video Stealing Beauty (2007, about 18 minutes) was featured in an architecture talk that my husband…
Video poetry: the prequel
I’ve been meaning to write a series of posts about video poetry, but it’s proved tricky to find the right…
Write the Surface
File under tools for writers: Swype has come out with a gesture-based text input for touchscreen devices. Words are written…
Alphabet Playpen
We know our ABCs. The words we type every day combine and recombine letters in hundreds of thousands of patterns.…
Video Two Ways.
1. It’s been over a year since I first saw Roderick Coover’s video The Theory of Time Here (there’s a…