Naveed Lalani, a Fall 2004 Web Design student of mine at The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a new company called Pyrix.com, which “offers non-partisan political software that fuses technology and democracy for the masses—empowering the average political entrepreneur.” The first point in their 10 point Philosophy: We Don’t Take Sides. We…
The October 2008 issue of Harper’s (subscription required) has a hilarious excerpt from Chris Offutt’s “The Offutt Guide to Literary Terms” (.pdf) which was published a year ago in the Seneca Review. A few goodies: MEMOIR: From the Latin memoria, meaning “memory,” a popular form in which the writer remembers entire passages of dialogue…
Dan Cohen plots the over 500 edits to Sarah Parlin’s Wikipedia entry composed by hundreds of people. Fascinating example of distributed collaborative writing.
From The New York Times: It’s interesting to view the mapping of the major speakers’ words with the words of Obama’s and McCain’s acceptance speeches. They’re mapped here using the very cool Wordle, which my dear friend Suzanne Tiedemann introduce me to. Obama and then McCain (click on image for better resolution): Whereas the…