So, I'm a little disappointed with my final project thus far. What looked like an interesting concept for probing the relationship between online and "real" worlds may be generating interesting results, but these results must be inferred from the near absence of participation thus far.

I liked my prospects when I launched the project late last week. The site looked professional, but simple, and the "are you really putting a journal on Marston Quad?" that I got in class seemed to indicate a level of interest that could fuel the project. Several days, many pictures, several digesters and a few personal pleas later, I'm looking down only two contributions to the project.

I'd like to call attention to an important comment Lulu made to my recent post about hypertext composition method. She discusses how ideas develop during and out of the process of writing -- an idea that I think doesn't get enough play in discussions of writing process and poetics, perhaps because some of us (like me) find it difficult to pin down and analyze. She mentions preferring non-visual modes of operation. This interests me because I think my own extensive and reflexive dependence on visuality may tend to lead me into analyzing things, including Websites and hypertext narratives, as static or non-temporal -- something that might be applied to Patchwork Girl and Victory Garden, for instance, which use spatial, nontemporal metaphors for narrative.

I wish to notify everyone that I will allow an imaginary friend, Jack Mole, to use my account to upload regular entries to this site.

This is probably a lousy way to introduce a friend, but I hereby apologize for Jack in advance. He expresses ideas and opinions neither I nor anyone else I know endorses. Further, he seems to consider his fictional world at least as real as our own. I usually find this charming in personae, but it may lead him to act in ways not appropriate to a classroom environment, since he feels that this is only a publishing convenience, not a classroom or even, really, a social setting in any usual sense.

Plus,