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[Blogging from the ELO event, Visionary Landscapes]
“Provocation by Program”
Imagining a Next-Revolution ELIZA
Nick Montfort and Andrew Stern
http://grandtextauto.org
(This is an unusual post. I’m using a very different blog voice with a very different goal in mind. I am writing this blog post as a set of notes framed as a dialogue with all the […]

Wednesday, May 21st, from 12:30-5:00pm, the Software Studies Initiative at UC San Diego invites you to attend a public event:
SoftWhere: Software Studies Workshop 2008
SUMMARY:
Time: Wed. May 21 - Thu. May 22
Place: UPDATED:
Wed. May 21: UCSD Faculty Club, Atkinson Pavilion (public)
  Thu. May 22: Atkinson Hall 5302 (private)
URL: http://workshop.softwarestudies.com/
Related: Affiliated HASTAC II Conference, UC Irvine, […]

[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 […]

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 […]