Diigo and CommentPress go Head-to-Head (updated)
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino April 28th, 2008 in Researchers, Features, Criticism, Publications, Education.[Updated: 4/28/08…project still in planning stages]
In several postings, WRT has blogged about Diigo social annotation software (1, 2, 3) and CommentPress blogware. Both are about to go head-to-head over Jonathan Zittrain’s book The Future of the Internet–and how to stop it. Zittrain’s book has already been published online with the CommentPress system in place. Now one researcher has called in the Diigo commentators to apply a browser-based system to the business of annotation.
Editor-in-Chief of and Director of openDemocracy.net, Tony Curzon Price has invited Diigo users to join him in annotating Zittrain’s book using that system “because of diigo’s nice research-centered features.” To participate, users will contribute annotations to two lists: one focusing on summaries, the other on commentaries. However, Price is still working out the details of using Diigo for the project….Updates to follow.
In a recent presentation to the Digital Educators Consortium at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC, Jeremy and I considered the relative merits of both systems — speculating about how one might serve communities differently than others. One key difference is who presents the moment for critique — is it the blog, inviting and providing a forum for feedback, or are the readers deciding to apply their comments in a group or independently. The second, more complex difference, stems from the way the two systems operate: CommentPress has thread-like comments for each paragraph while Diigo comments are individual sticky notes and in-situ annotations. This project will be an interesting test case and will no doubt be a useful contribution to the longer questions of communal annotation.
Continue reading ‘Diigo and CommentPress go Head-to-Head (updated)’
Bunk Satirizes Wikis and Los Angeles Times
0 Comments Published by Mark Marino April 9th, 2008 in hyperfic, Features, Off Topic, Text Art, Publications, Social, Multi-Modal.The 10th anniversary issue of Bunk Magazine is online with a new issue, featuring:
Los Wikiless Timespedia
The premise: The Los Angeles Times, to save its flagging enterprise, has relaunched itself in an entirely wiki format as The Los Wikiless Timespedia.
LA Times Switches to All-Wiki Format in 11th-Hour Battle for Life
In a desperate attempt to stop the involuntary leakage of its readership, the slightly less-old gray lady has tried the Depends of new media, embracing a technology that almost spelt its d-e-a-t-h in bright blue hyperlinked Arial.
The piece plays with the mode of wikis and is a consideration of how old media producers get new media wrong. By putting it in wiki-format, the Magazine allows the readers (and spambots) to supply the punchline. User contributions are featured in a stream on the front page with an RSS feed attached for subscribers.
Of course, the LA Times, famously attempted a wiki editorial page, dubbed “Wikitorial,” and were so pummeled with spam and user fighting that they had to take it down. Since then, the newspaper has avoided such sordid media forms, though it has increasingly added more user mobility on its website.
Think of it as: Write Your Own Onion or A Million Little Bunkers.
Continue reading ‘Bunk Satirizes Wikis and Los Angeles Times’
Announcing Elit Open Mouse at USC (4/25/08)
3 Comments Published by Mark Marino April 3rd, 2008 in Features, News.
CFP: Elit under the Stars (4/25/08)
Elit Open Mic/Open Mouse
April 25,2008, 7:30pm
USC, Institute for Multimedia Literacy
Calling All creators (and fans) of Electronic Literature: authors, designers, and programmers. Sign up now to present your new or favorite work of elit in our Open Mic/Open Mouse.
Venue:
Outdoors under the stars at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, 746 West Adams Blvd., LA, CA 90089 at the University of Southern California. (see map)
Potential Genres:
- Electronic Poetry
- Hypertext
- Interactive Fiction
- Interactive Drama
- Conversational Agents
- Video Mashups
- Serious Games
- Flash Works
- Codeworks
Or you may read an excerpt of one of your favorite elit works.
Performance Spots Length: 7 Minutes Max
The performance will be Free and Open to the public.
Contact: To sign up, contact Jeremy Douglass [jeremydouglass [at] gmail]
Organized by Mark Marino, Jeremy Douglass, and Jessica Pressman with support from Holly Willis of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy and from the Electronic Literature Organization.
Continue reading ‘Announcing Elit Open Mouse at USC (4/25/08)’
Social Bookmarking Soulmates
1 Comment Published by Mark Marino March 6th, 2008 in Features, Education.Over the past few years, WRT has occasionally addressed the use of new writing technologies in the composition classroom (several posts: 1, 2, 3 and Christy’s list of Games and Pedagogy). Needless to say, these lessons might also fit a multimedia literacy course or even a social media course. This post offers an exercise in investigating the role of social bookmarking tools, such as Diigo (previously discussed wrt “Marginalia”) and del.icio.us in contemporary online research.
Social Bookmarking Soulmates
an exercise in academic social networking:
Video Follows:
Shameless Peer Promotion
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino February 27th, 2008 in Uncategorized, Features, News, Publications.WRT over the past three years has always maintained a sense of blogging responsibility. We made some of this policy explicit in our post in the Reconstruction “Why I blog” article. One goal was not to blog just to announce our various achievements. In fact, when you do see this, it is usually because two of us have goaded the other into posting. Or, in other cases, an announcement is wrapped in a meditation on some related topic. But let me take a moment to promote two particular successes of my WRT peers.
Christy Dena in Convergence
As she continues her dissertation writing, Christy has recently appeared in a special issue of Convergence (February 2008), edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze, with her special article entitled, “Emerging Participatory Culture Practices: Player-Created Tiers in Alternate Reality Games.” Christy has also created a website to provide a locus for further discussion of the article.
Jeremy in CommentPress
As Jeremy continues his work in his Software Studies postdoc, he has also contributed significantly to the development of the CommentPress blog annotation system, news that has been posted by a number of blogs in our blog roll, but shamefully not ours. Jeremy was working in collaboration with the talented folks over at the Institute for the Future of the Book.
You can see the fruits of Jeremy’s work over at Grand Text Auto where the plugin is serving as the venue for feedback on Noah Wardrip Fruin’s book manuscript, which is, of course, neither a printed book (as of yet) nor handwritten. (Serialized bloguscript?)
Further details:
