Conference Update

Early Death Knell

On the Up Side
I have "Blog Entry" on my To-Do List today, among other things. It seems I have not been very good about posting in the past couple of weeks, in addition to not having been very good at lots of other things.The issue really is that I was awarded a teaching assistantship at the very last minute before classes started, and I've spent the first month of term getting up to speed, as well as getting all my little freelance gigs out the door (still working on some of those). So I haven't done much actual research (read: writing) lately.That ends today, as I have several paragraphs down now on the first story of my PhD, and I've started outlining the next paper

ELD 2.0: A "Card Catalogue" for the Web Generations
The portion of the blogosphere devoted to digital/new media writing and e-publishing is filled with concerns, despairing, and a truckload of theories about how this emerging (emerged?) literary genre is to be organized, recognized, distributed, and brought into the canon of literature.The importance of creating/accepting a canon for any given genre has been discussed much, as has the difficulty of establishing a central depository for works that often have no physical form. The technology is evolving quickly - works that are considered part of the canon are often just old enough that modern machines

Art and Story
My plan for yesterday was to spend the entire day immersed in the beta for the Electronic Literature Directory's new site, and post about it here. Unfortunately, I woke up feeling as though gnomes had scoured my throat with steel wool