- From Fibreculture, Caroline McCaw on the art of Second Life and Axel Bruns looks at used based “produsage.”
Due to some monetary constraints I was unable to attend ELO 08, but Scott Rettberg posted his presentation over at Grand Text Auto. More on that soon.
Barrett Hathcock’s essay on the Internet from The Quarterly Conversation.
Catching up on fiction from The New Yorker: Bolano, Diaz, Eugenides, and a previously untranslated story by Nabokov.
Seamus Heaney’s 1985 review of Mr. Palomar from the New York Times.
Daniel Green’s review of the intriguing Lost Books Of The Odyssey.
The New Yorker had a big piece last week on Keith Olbermann.
Meanwhile, on Twitter…
The New Republic pays tribute to de Beauvoir.
Terra Nova covers a promising MMO called Lila Dreams.
Greg Palast on the preemptive theft of the 2008 election. Speaking of, maybe I should just sleep in anyway.
My new desktop background (Kind of big and exciting casting spoilers for the finale of Doctor Who)
Kristin Hersh has a new website.
And…
Margaret Atwood won a big literary award in Spain.
A member of the old New York hardcore band Ultra Violence gets a mention in The New Yorker too.