Whose Text, Pt. II: More thoughts on remixing, revision, recursiveness

My thoughts in the last post I wrote ended up kind of truncated because I was rushing to finish the post and hadn’t really thought about how the Hemingway story I highlighted relates to some of the other issues I find myself dealing with on an almost daily basis in my work as a writing [...]

Whose Text Is It Anyway? Of Editions and Remixes

Haven’t been able to write much this week due to a combination of out of town company (fun!) and car trouble (not at all fun). But last night I had a moment to scan through the NY Times just to catch up on what was going on. I always check out the Op-Ed page and [...]

Get RIP(ped)!

Believe it or not, I got in a little “work” during the Athfest-ivities last weekend. Taking a break on Saturday afternoon from the crippling Georgia heat, I retreated to Cine, Athens’ cool (literally, thank the gods!)  independent movie theater, which was featuring a number of rock docs as part of the weekend’s events. I caught [...]

A Touch of Nature from UC-Davis


I ♥ Neologisms

Obviously. I mean, the title of this blog is one, after all. I just came across this piece from VentureBeat (a few days old, granted, but cut me some slack - I’ve been enjoying the hot, sweaty musical fun of Athfest these past few days instead of scouring the Web for interesting tidbits) and got [...]

A Subtext of Snark: Tweeting the Death of Michael Jackson

Jenna Wortham’s post on the Bits blog in the NY Times on the Tweeting of Michael Jackson’s death on Thursday, June 25, sent me right back to thinking about the Twitter phenomenon I had just written about in my post on the Computers and Writing conference.