Writing about Literature in the Digital Age

this video explains massive open online courses MOOCs which sound rather interesting.

contributions to the digital world from our very own campus

I thought this was so cool when I opened up google today!

This is the page for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Has info about digital natives, social media and journalism, and internet and democracy.

An interesting blog I found that talks about the changing times and the importance of technology in learning

The title says it all - the Sublimity of American modern technology. A really interesting spin on the sublime

Some fun with the technological sublime. Very closely related to the digital sublime.

I mostly liked the 8th paragraph about how critics looking at any literature from an LDS perspective need to leave physical evidence of their work, so future LDS critics can build upon it and stop re-inventing the wheel.

We need distant reading, Moretti argues, because its opposite, close reading, can't uncover the true scope and nature of literature. Let's say you pick up a copy of "Jude the Obscure," become obsessed with Victorian fiction and somehow manage to make your way through all 200-odd books generally considered part of that canon. Moretti would say: So what? As many as 60,000 other novels were published in 19th-century England - to mention nothing of other times and places. You might know your George Eliot from your George Meredith, but you won't have learned anything meaningful about literature, because your sample size is absurdly small. Since no feasible amount of reading can fix that, what's called for is a change not in scale but in strategy. To understand literature, Moretti argues, we must stop reading books.

How to add a "read more" link in your blog

I'm sure all of us have been appalled by Blogger's temporary lack of service. I found this site useful because it at least lets me know when it is my computer's fault vs. Blogger's fault.

Competition for our attention spans across different varieties of media was not something I had even considered when I started my research on the publishing industry, but it is relevant now that we can be doing so much.

Hypertext of Milton's Paradise Lost

A simple explanation of the wisdom of crowds.

Several posters designed for students offering tips on how to use different services offered by Google.

Newly launched digital literacy site--run by the government.

Hey this is a link to Jeff Howe's blog it has interesting ideas about some of the things that we have been talking about in class.

Kind of goofy video but its short and explains the jist of crowdsourcing quickly.

If you want to read more digital culture books for free, here's another by Lawrence Lessig.

and to think I had finally come around on Zuckerberg