[...over in #feralC Twitterland theres lots-a-foamin': @Miss_Stressa is incommunicado. @HUD_B is trying to help @QReada + has worked out how to decipher his/her QR code(s). @shadowmcclone is taciturn as usual. @gossama game chats 2 Shane Hinton and is concerned about the absence of @Miss_Stressa. @jr_carpenter also chats to @gossama about her suspicions that @Miss_Stressa may [...]

“My Nervous Breakdown” is a new digital story from webyarns.com. Any similarities to people living or dead (including myself) is purely an accident and not worth mentioning…. http://www.webyarns.com/MyNervousBreakdown.html

Greetings all! A heads-up: the 7th issue of Hyperrhiz, “New Media Subversions,” is now online, guest-edited by Davin Heckman and Hai Ren. Featuring essays from Davin Heckman and Hai Ren, Neil Hennessy, Brian M. Reed, Benjamin J Robertson, Andrew Klobucar, and Brett Phares With gallery works by: Neil Hennessy, Nicholas Knouf, Angela Ferraiolo and Mary Flanagan, Jason Nelson, and Brett Phares And a very fine review [...]

(1) Are there any prerequisites to being a digital writer? To be a digital writer, it’s probably best if you like to write, or at least not hate it.  Then, if you can pull as many muses into your corner as you can, that might help: history, music, dance, astronomy, and art…. Patience is a [...]

Announcing: _:terror(aw)ed patches:_ A Google Wave(let) Transformation by Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez, 2009 Title: _:terror(aw)ed patches:_ Original URL: http://non-playercharacter.com/?p=43 Description: Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez create a new method of collaborative “fiction” through _live concurrent editing_ in Google Wave. This process results in expressive output[s] termed “Transformations”: “Google Wave uses an algorithmic variation of [...]

Ten is a round number, it has a nice ring to it, so I’m using it for a series of blog posts. Ten, of course. The first was Ten Misconceptions About Digital Literature, and this one is Ten Predictions. The last will probably be Ten Reasons Why I Should Not Have Done This, but until [...]