Okay, finally, as promised, more stuff on the remixing, revision, re-composition, and reconstitution issues that have been on my mind of late…
Continue reading Rewrite, Reuse, Recycle: Some Cool Recent Developments on the Remix Front
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Kate Armstrong’s “Feeds and Streams: RSS Poetics,” originally published in a special issue of of The Capilano Review devoted to writing and technology, is available as part of a fascinating online reiteration/remix of that issue by Web artist and writer J.R. Carpenter. In her essay, Armstrong proposes a new literary art that might arise from the steady streams of RSS feeds, Tweet streams, status updates, and headline aggregators that bombard us:
A poetics arising out of a constant, ever-changing stream of fragments? An art, a narrative, a poem that is ultimately and solely the product of an individual reader/writer’s parsing of bits and pieces of information, of text. Continue reading We Swim in the Stream: Kate Armstrong’s RSS Poetics, News Feeds, Twitter Streams 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 professional. So I want to take the time to explore some of those issues a bit further… Continue reading Whose Text, Pt. II: More thoughts on remixing, revision, recursiveness 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 the Letters to the Editor, one of my favorite parts of any newspaper. Yesterday, there was a letter in response to an article that the Times recently published that just got under my skin. I’ve been dwelling on it since last night, so it’s time to try to make these random thoughts a bit more coherent. Intrigued? Curious? Dying to know what got me so riled up? Continue reading Whose Text Is It Anyway? Of Editions and Remixes 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 the free showing of RiP: A Remix Manifesto, a film by Brett Gaylor that takes a look at how the age of digital music has opened a can of copyright worms.  One of the redwoods on the UC-Davis arboretum trail  A flower along the trail  A little stream action along the UCD tree trail 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 big kick out of it. All about a new site that helps you create the perfect word for that thing that drives you nuts. A fair number of the things that seem to get under people’s skin are technology-related. I love the suggestions of “maybenet” and “wi-fucked” as terms to describe a spotty internet connection! 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. Last weekend I attended the Computers and Writing 2009 conference which was held at the University of California-Davis. This conference is always extremely thought-provoking and inspirational to me, so I think I’ll kick off my new blog with a discussion of what I heard, saw, and learned from June 18-21, 2009. First of all, |
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