Humanities Computing

Mozilla is jumping into the ring with a mobile OS platform. Still in development, but this is the main page for info about the new platform

Blog for latest updates on HTML5 protocol; it may be tricky, but it is slowly replacing Flash.

Publication of Simon Morris's retyping of Kerouac's On The Road. I find this interesting because I wonder how Goldsmith's discussion of Morris's retyping of the text onto the blog might change now that the text is found within yet another context (the published, printed book). I'm considering buying a copy. . .

Interesting article about Kenneth Goldsmith. Includes some great quotes about his theories pertaining to originality and readability.

Here is a live recording of Vanessa Place reading at the Kelly Writers House in March 2011. Vanessa Place was of course cited frequently in Kenny Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing. I think listening/watching the live reading really aids in the comprehension of his discussion of her work.

This is another plagiarism-themed article that complicates notions of ownership and creativity. This article recaps how Apple and Samsung have been locked in a bitter struggle over tablet designs.

Twitter etiquette - knowing when to be personal and when to be professional - or recognizing the lack of a line between the two.

A brief history of storytelling.

Fascinating article on truth and verifiability on Wikipedia. The author is an expert on the Haymarket labor riots, but finds this still does not qualify him to edit the Wikipedia entry on the topic.

Fascinating recent plagiarism case from the New Yorker. Spy novel written by author who was "undercover" in the sense that he was secretly writing everything with passages lifted from other novels. 

This is a video of Marshall Mcluhan discussing how the medium is the message in 1977. It's interesting to both see him and hear his voice while he talks about his opinions we've already discussed in his book.

A fun video of that madcap guy Kenny Goldsmith, reading three pomes about the Brooklyn Bridge, one by Whitman, one by Crane, and one by Kenny himself.

In our reading this week, there is an emphasis on how the Electronic Literature Organization is working to preserve online narratives that somehow become out of date. Here is a huge reason why that is so important. As we move toward a dependence on mobile technology, Flash is officially out.

This is the entry point for the work of Loss Pequeno Glazier, what the text notes as a unique online work in which text is generated every ten seconds. I really needed some kind of visualization of this since description just doesn't quite get me there. Click begin to try it out

This RSA adaptation of Evgeny Morozov's 2009 talk illustrates (and examines) the concept of "cyber-utopianism": the theory that the internet "plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics." Morozov discusses whether or not the internet predominately empowers or censors citizens by facilitating activism and allowing individuals to disseminate information more effectively.

Here is a link to the short story "The Babysitter" by Robert Coover, mentioned by Hayle, which in her words, "pushes toward hypertext by juxtaposing contradictory and nonsequential events, suggesting many simultaneously existing time lines and narrative unfoldings" (74). You could skim it sometime :)

Most of the articles I'm bookmarking for now I don't really have a lot of response or reaction to or deep meaningful thought about because I'd never even heard of HTML5 until our class last week (2.15). So, now, I'm just trying to educate myself and get caught up on what all is being said out there about HTML5. This article addresses some of that in ways I can understand.

Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash"-a response to Adobe's apparent accusations that Apple isn't "open."

Since Mikenna bookmarked a New York Times article about Pinterest, I've been thinking about what makes that site different (and, in my opinion, more successful) than other social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. According to this Huffington Post article, "What sets Pinterest apart and makes it so appealing is its focus on who we want to be -- not on what we're doing, where we've gone, how important we are or how beloved. While much of the content shared on existing social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare screams, 'Look at me,' Pinterest posts urge, 'Look at this.'" While I agree with that idea to some extent, I wonder if we can ever engage in social media/social networking without an air of "look at me." This made me think of Goldsmith's idea of Internet identity: "On the Internet, these tendencies move in different directions, with identity running the gamut from authenticity to total fabrication" (84). So, maybe Pinterest allows its users to create a more authentic identity for themselves while Facebook and Twitter promote more fabricated identities.