“Cordite 36: Electronica has been a fascinating and challenging issue to put together. It contains forty new poems, fifteen spoken word tracks, a dozen features and, for the first time, a selection of multimedia or ‘e-lit’ works. Bringing together these disparate types of content raises an interesting question for Cordite as an online journal. Have [...]

The third instalment of the Summer 2010 online edition of the literary journal Rain Taxi is now online at http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2010summer/, and it includes an interview which I conducted earlier this year with the new media writer, poet, scholar and philosopher Joel Weishaus. The starting-point for the interview is Joel’s most recent complete work, The Gateless [...]

Hi, everyone– It has not been long since the last one, but there’s a new story at webyarns.com… “This Is Not A Poem” is a toy, a game, a language engine, and a poem all at the same time…. The new plaything is at http://www.ThisIsNotAPoem.com Also, in case you missed it, “My Nervous Breakdown,” released [...]

["Haunts: Place, Play, and Trauma" originally appeared at samplereality.com. Because it deals with new media and storytelling, it seems appropriate to share with the netpoetic community.] Foursquare and its brethren (Gowalla, Brightkite, Loopt, and so on) are the latest social media darlings, but honestly, are they really all that useful? Sharing your location with your [...]

“Coffee stall by the front entrance. People drinking coffee in the shade of a tree. More or less everyone in suits. Business coffee-break. Giles, meet me at half-two, outside the church, for a power-espresso. Stockbrokers, financiers, commodity-dealers. I don’t do tangibles, I do invisibles, I’m into futures, that’s where the big money is. Right in [...]