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Link to wiki
Read some critical comments

During five weeks all people on the globe can collaborate to the writing of a novel. The experiment – writing a novel using the wikitool – is initiated (and fully owned!) by Penguin and the students of the MA in Creative Writing and New Media of the Montfort University.

Participating into this is highly exciting. The wiki started off 5 days ago and hit more than 500 changes an hour. Hot discussions are going on about plots and characters. On the organizers’ side (an editor and a technician seem to be full time in charge of the wiki) this envolves all kind of funny problemsolving. » Read the rest of this entry «

Link to the collection

The first electronic library collection has been published both on the web and on cd-rom under a Creative Commons License ( Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives).

The collection represents an anthology of sixty works, curated by N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland.

Going through the collection is an easy and exciting way to discover the potentials of the ‘technotexts’ (K. Hayles, Writing Machines).

Call for submissions for the second electronic library collection will be somewhere in June 2007. Read & write :-).

Furtherfield published a brief review and an interview with one of the curators, Scott Rettberg, hypertext author and theorist (http://retts.net).

You can also check out the full directory of ELO, a descriptive guide for more than 2300 e-literature-compositions.

Other comment on this library collection

organised by De Balie in Amsterdam on 19-1-07

Why print or not print in times of online media? How does the grey zone in between ‘on’ & ‘off’ publishing look like? How does it change publishing processes? How does the human race react upon the variety of formats and possibilities?

These are the questions that got some interesting replies during the presentations at De Balie. In the previous post I reformulated the ideas on the existing infrastructure and the POD-services (print on demand). Here I would like to present the reader’s point of view of Arie Altena (media theorist, writer, lecturer and researcher at Jan van Eyck Academy). » Read the rest of this entry «

organised by De Balie in Amsterdam on 19-1-07

Why print or not print in times of online media? How does the grey zone in between ‘on’ & ‘off’ publishing look like? How do they change publishing processes? How does the human race react upon the variety of formats and possibilities?

These are the questions that got some interesting replies during the presentations at De Balie. Thanks to the nice service of live-streaming I followed everything smoothly from my flat in Brussels, getting impatient about streamservices that allow virtual reactions form the audience.

I would like to split the presentations into ideas about ‘the infrastructure’ and ideas about the ‘reading/use’. Doing so I follow the presentation line of the evening: after the interventions of Alessandro Ludovico (editor-in-chief Neural & co-founder of the ‘Mag.Net – Electronic Cultural Publishers) and Simon Worthington (co-founder Mute Magazine, co-founder ‘Mag.Net) – based on the love for publishing, the last presenter was Arie Altena (media theorist, writer, lecturer and researcher at Jan van Eyck Academy) who talked from the reader’s point of view. » Read the rest of this entry «