Today's Presentations

First of all, I really enjoyed seeing what people have been working on throughout the semester. I was really impressed by the form and the content. As someone who has not spent much time working with computer programs or even reading electronic literature, this has been an extremely interesting experience for me.

Today, I was particularly interested in the two presentations that were more along the lines of non-fiction. It seems that a lot of electronic literature that we have looked at is either scholarly or fictional. The closest to non-fiction are the blogs we looked at, but today I felt that the two presentations were more personal than any I have seen online. Perhaps this is due to the fact that they used real names, pictures, and discussed real places or perhaps the fact that I know these people offline. It may be that I am still unexperienced in the wide array of literature online but I am interested to see the possibilities of this sort of "non-fiction" in the future. More particularly, will this type of genre have a place online other than on personal sites that are locked, and open only to those with a username and password?

These, and the fact that marmalade got feedback from Mackenzie Wark really brought to light the concerns and rewards of publishing online. On the one hand, we have concerns over publishing information about our family yet on the other hand, marmalade got some really neat feedback on her project from the scholar himself!