Mia on how the WWW is a ‘web’ and thinking through that a bit more. Jane realises that things are immediately near to hand when writing online, and this makes a difference. More sig...Read More
Mia on the Landow with a nice observation that blogs aren’t really like blogs, for instance blogs are ‘backwards’, and unlike diaries are public. Tilly pauses on just one thing in th...Read More
Nga pulls up more stuff that Brian mentioned on the Stuart Hall codes and decoding (though I return to yesterday's point, if an author has to subject themselves to 'codes' to be understood then this ...Read More
Two comments, this is a common trope in soap opera and so we don't need multilinear narrative for it (well, except soap opera is also a particular form of multi-sequential narrative), though more impo...Read More
Ten sonnets, in the original you could flip each line individually (like those children's books to create fantastic creatures), this creates 100,000,000,000,000 possible combinations, it would take so...Read More
It will remember where you are up to, can store multiple bookmarks, lets you highlight passages, share your highlights if you wish with other readers, tell you how long you've been reading for, build ...Read More
Where does this anxiety of the open come from (if your life was structured like a novel it would be hell, in a novel or a fictional film there is no such thing as chance or coincidence, everything hap...Read More
Nadine enjoyed the symposium, recognises that the essence of the literary is not paper (it is language), but also has an excellent outline of what we said about hypertext and cinema. ... Yet in the ...Read More
Jennifer does an interesting speculative turn where if hypertext keep changing, then are they, in some small way, alive, or at least, like something living? I think the answer's probably no, but th...Read More
Note though, we have lots of examples of stories with indeterminate endings, even in traditional books and films, and also from 'being swept into an author's world' it does not follow that there has t...Read More