Writing about Literature in the Digital Age

I found this very interesting after reading Sam's post (http://sammcgrathwritings.blogspot.com/2011/05/hp-lovecraft-forbidden-knowledge-and.html) for the day.  What "should" we read? really.

This related to a blog I just did. Go to themes. The first one is Forbidden Knowledge. He was mentioned in Rainbows End too.

Some stuff on H. P. Lovecraft. I wrote a blog mentioning him and he is also briefly mentioned in Rainbows End.

Another blog about the change in publishing with the rise of ebooks.

Animated version of Sir Ken Robinson's now famous manifesto for a new education paradigm. Very engaging

Article about the history of science fiction at BYU.

Does this promote citizen involvment and interest in the government, or is this Big Brotherish? I can't decide.

can't find the original post with the tweet list but this is a cool example of the format news takes in the digital age. LOOK at all those links and it's short and concise with lots of little lists and such.

the newsblog I mentioned in class that sometimes uses long lists of tweets from people on the ground at the bottom of their articles to keep their article updated.

more about our discussion about the anonymity of presence online: This site is a diving board for people who are homeless to begin using social media. It advocates the use of social media to give these people a voice in a community that is more apt to ignore them. People don't often listen to people who "look" homeless, but because with social media they can blog/tweet/status update from their hearts and be judged only on the basis of what they say without being preempted by something else, people listen.

this was mentioned in class

An academic social bookmarking system

A reference manager for research (also a tool for discovering bookmarks)

Now that's what I call a wearable! Also...um...WHAT?!

um ... ew? :) Dare we ask how you found this?

Of course, I was googling robotic kissing methods.

Article about all the information that we can't possibly consume (especially pertinent in the digital age) and the different perspectives we can take about this fact.

Rachael, you should post about this! I want to hear more of your thoughts about it. :)

And to think Dr. Burton's iPad two will already be obsolete!

Well there goes the neighborhood, now I'll get ten phone calls a day requesting me to send an energy pack in mafia wars

I wonder what my dad would think if I told him we could grow clothes instead of corn?

This is specifically for crowdsourcing. It seems like the first step toward what is describe in Rainbows End. The idea of this type of social network is kind of exciting.