Diigo, which has a cameo in the Wesch film (nominated for best supporting web
ap), offers itself in its latest beta incarnation as a site for sharing
annotations in the form of sticky tabs. Thus, the web becomes notable. I have
already begun to use this site in my classes for commenting on blogs my students
write.
But why not use this tool, in the spirit of Writer Response Technologies, in
the spirit of Flickr fiction and Tag Cloud Art, as a tool for creating fiction.
Because Diigo offers the social annotation of sites, there is the possibility of
creating narratives, parasitic though they may be, upon the websites of
others.Following the genre of annotation fiction, discussed at length below, why
not turn the web into a means of characterization, to turn web reading practices
themselves into ways of examining the ergodic, interiority of our characters, or
to stitch together tales of paranoia in the way that various ARGS have.
If we use the tool in this manner, the Web will be, as author Roberto Leni
has put it, our palette.
