This is part of a series of provocative critiques by Stanley Fish of the discourse of digital humanities. Essentially he calls for a revised view of digital humanities that takes into account literary critical concerns with reception, ambiguity, and so on. Well work reading.

Another online photoeditor.

An artwork based on the continual archiving of Facebook pages and then wiping to create new pages. Identity becomes finely controlled and accessed.

The funniest and lamest of Facebook.

The latest in social media: enter your credit card number and instantly display everything you buy. Genius or the height of intrusiveness? Or, if we can't tell, is this about some sort of triumph of social media over privacy?

This is a wiki - so anyone can edit - that provides collectively authored and accessible free tax advice. An excellent example of collective effort.

A social networking site enabling artists and other creators to get a "kickstart."

A collective artwork run. The work is charming, poignant, as is created and maintained by amateurs...

A social networking site for people making Lego mods. The point is the sheer diversity of social networks. They are intensely local but available globally.

A social networking site for discovering and sharing content.

Meetup facilitates meetups. That's it, but it's tremendously effective. It's a perfect example of publish then filter. And it is dedicated to the potential of groups.

Copyright/information piracy is much older than the net, as a new book shows. There was copying and distributing centuries ago - and the people were responsible were called pirates! The current copyright regime didn't arrive until the 18th century and it entered into an existing culture of copying and pirating.

A perfect example of "publish then filter": Italian courts convict Google executives of defamation and piracy for not removing an offensive video

Another online photoediting tool (lik Picnic). Very useful. You can upload photos and edit them, or you can create you own.

Report on "digital natives." Includes studies of relationships, online gaming, facebookery, etc. Interesting resource and shows the mainstreaming of these topics.

This is the blog for the Spring 2010 Multimedia Writing class. It is a portal for information and activities regarding the class.