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 [...]

Strange things can happen to the reader when printed matter unlocks digital delights! In early June an international collection of e-literature was installed in a gallery setting in downtown Providence (Rhode Island, USA) for the Arts Program of the Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference (ELO_AI), including my own piece, Underbelly. There were many wonderful works [...]

[new clues/images up at #feralC] *prepare 2 lunge_tumble after @Miss_Stressa in2 sepia+lead_grey terraced bunnyholes* http://netwurker.net/

Announcing: _feralC_ – A Socumentary _feralC_ is a socumentary* which is textually driven by the interactions of five Twitter chars [primary characters or entities] and their Pupa Mistress (PM). The PM initially functions as a Twitter based information hub for the interactions between the chars and other contributing entities (such as yourself). These additional contributing [...]

common practice/language Texts by mez breeze 3 June, 5pm-8pm Reading Room in Arnolfini and online at http://automatist.net/deptofreading/wiki/pmwiki.php/CommonPractice contact common_practice on Skype to join the session (next sessions: 24 June, 9 and 30 September) Italo Calvino said ‘the storyteller explored the possibilities implied in his own language by combining and changing the permutations of the figures [...]

“Geração sobre a fala” (“My Generation about Talking,” Nick Montfort) Tradução para o português, Cicero Inacio da Silva. “My Generation about Talking,” a text generator which I first presented at the Software Studies Workshop on May 21, 2008, is now available in Portuguese translation, thanks to Cicero Inacio da Silva. It was made for use [...]

Here is the author’s description: “The Longest Poem in the World is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme. It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day. You can see more verses by clicking the three dots at the bottom (• • •) Made by Andrei Gheorghe.” It’s interesting [...]

As we’ve already touched on here, there are a great many tools for creating lovely digital works. Daniel C. Howe  has created such a tool.  I plan to spend my Australian summer diving into this and making something, anything. I encourage others to play as well.  Jason From the site: -  RiTa† is an easy-to-use [...]