Composition This Time

This time I’m teaching English Composition. I’ve not (yet) persuaded the students to blog, but I have at least started a blog for the class. I’m also using the official WebCT site.
Composition instruction is, of course, a natural for blogging, both for and by students. I was hoping some would be interested in web logs […]

Hypertext and Mackers

Wired has a review of multimedia artist dlsan’s HyperMacbeth. dlsan’s web-based piece of interactive performance art uses phrases from the play and places them against an annoying Flash annimation. He has also translated the Macbeth bits into Italian, and accompanied the production with music from Nine Inch Nails and others.
I hate it. Yeah, I know, […]

It’s About Writing

Dave Winer, in an old Wired interview he doesn’t much like, is quoted as saying:

To me, the Web is not about getting rich. It’s about users, designers, stories, and pictures. It’s a writing environment..

I think he’s exactly right. Blogging, for all the ability to add or link to images, is one of the ways […]