ENGL 303: Multimedia Writing

Since 2004, Hollywood's most hated website has been delivering the juiciest celebrity gossip. The blog is The go-to source for daily happenings in Hollywood. Written by the internet's most notorious gossip columnist, Perez Hilton (Mario Lavandeira).

A site for people to post books, poems, articles, short stories, and other types of writing to get feedback from peers.

Uses Collaborative writing to make several points. On pages 301 - 305, author makes some comments about authorship (how it began and how it is today and how it works in collaborative writing). I haven't read the whole thing yet.

A website of cool stuff, diverse topics and opinions. Some of it's nutty, some fascinating. Much of it relates to individual freedom of expression on the net and beyond - a fundamental issue of authorship. It's also a great source for useful tools.

This is about editing. I'm very interested in this topic.

This is about new media and writing.

This is a good website that introduces Multimedia Writing. It gives tips on how to write for Multimedia and the history behind it. This is a good starting place to get us thinking about what multimedia writing exactly is.

About Josh Harris, crucial though little-known internet cultural pioneer. He created situations where people lived or partied or etc. completely in public - in front of webcams. It was sensationalistic and tabloid-like but also capitalized on the narrative possibilities of the net, with the multimediated websites creating narratives out of the banal and everyday and voyeuristic.

The introduction talks about multimedia writing and editing, two things I'm very interested in.

This website is the weather channel online. It gives hourly,weekly, monthly weather according to locations. Also, this website branches out into aspects of ourlife affected by wather such as driving, health, outdoor activities, sports, etc..

This is webpage that showcases popular recipes, tv chefs, cooking tools, diet fads, and seasonal cooking ideas.

This is an article about what makes an object on the web valuable, what gives it "quality," in a world where everything is a copy of copy of copy (as the digital world it).

Everyone collaborates with and through the machine?

Remixing - is the authorship? is mashing and mixing someone else's work an active of creativity and authorship?

Lots of automatic language/text mixers and generators

Example of a collaborative image...

Web 2.0 and multimedia in 4 and a half minutes.

Multimedia writing mapped back onto the world. Is it "read" by the body?