WRT: Writer Response Theory

What is a botmaster?
If you turned today to a simple Google search for “botmaster” you might find three answers:

A bot author or creator - someone who programs with AIML or on Pandorabots (results 1, 2)
An individual who is responsible for and/or maintains a bot - as per a computer jargon dictionary (result 3)
A computer criminal […]

When a digital artwork, game, or story exists in many forms across many hardware and software systems, what is the ‘real’ work, and do we experience it differently?
Right now I’m thinking about that ur-interactive fiction, Adventure (a.k.a. ADVENT, Colossal Cave Adventure, etc.) - which through its complex history has been both massively cross-platform and massively […]

Today is the last day to vote on the 2006-2007 Rhizome Net Art Commissions. Current members are eligible - and Rhizome needs your participation!
Participate at the voting page - the current stage, “approval voting“. You will be presented sets of randomly selected applications from ~200 applicants, and give each a Yes […]

Announcing a new Wordpress plugin: Academic Citations!
The plugin automatically generates citations at the foot of every blog post in five common formats: AMA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, and MLA. It is well documented and installation is simple: upload and activate the plugin, insert a line into your template, and add optional CSS to your stylesheet. Try […]

The Need for Answers, uploaded by zachstern
Another example of flowchart art, this time with background photography.
Here, an explanation for the brightness of the sun flows down a photo of an ocean sunset, with the scientific response continually subdividing the explanation into a further “because”, while the religious response constantly terminates the remainder with a final […]