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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.

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 […]

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:

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 […]

[Updated 2/9/2008, see Suggestion Box below]
Before one brick for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture has been laid, its online instantiation is already being constructed by those who preserve and people that history. Surely, this is not the first museum to use a website to allow people to shape […]