impoverished artifices

Discussed:

BBC's Digital Planet discusses a South African mobile web app story serialization project.

NPR's All Things Considered compiled a story about the "wovel", which is, in essence, a roughly interactive serialization of a novel on a blog or on the web (web + novel = wovel).

I'm committing to transparently drafting this project online, which will be a little different than how I work with paper and pen. Usually, I outline notes with paper and pen, have a list of plot points, images, elements, characters, possibilities, etc. This is then formed into a word or rich text file on my computer. I will sometimes use pen and paper to write changes to a draft, composing a scene or snippet of a scene. Usually, this is no more than three pages and frequently less than that. I then fold the handwritten into the electronic. While entering my pen and paper scene edits, I'm also editing what I wrote with pen/paper as I enter the text. Thus, records of my manuscript edits are incomplete. With this format, I hope to be more reflexive and transparent with my edits.

I begin with a document that has been edited already. I don't have an original, or at least don't have a copy from between original and an early version, I'm guessing, as my iBook was stolen about one year ago. I may have earlier drafts in the cloud (gmail, D2L). I will look and port asynchronously if need be.

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Schmidt and I, we're two of a kind. Eric; not Steve.

It is important for a President to understand these issues, to have a clear policy statement on net neutrality and many more aspects, to extend broadband access to address some of the domestic digital divide, and to have clearly displayed an organizational mastery of incorporating networked technology into social capital building. It's refreshing to read words like transparency, access and privacy.

Plus, appointing a Chief Technology Officer just sounds cool.

Here's the deal: this is designed to be a central link collection of major news outlets, blogs, state secretary of state websites, and citizen journalism or new media resources that will provide you with the information you need on November 4th and (hopefully a happy) early AM on November 5th.

Also, it will serve as a live blog/open thread for all who want to share in the evening.

Also also, I'll try to add links relevant stories on turnout/polling problems/extended hours in the body of this post.

Temporary Bonus:

Via TPM's JMM:

Cruising the Orange shirts today, I came upon:

1. A diary about the McCain campaign limited media coverage of Sarah Palin's meeting with Hamid Karzai to a photog, a camera crew (no audio) and an editorial (non-reported) member of the print press. Apparently, they wanted to use the images, but didn't want to provide any context to their symbol's actual conversation.

2. An interactive election night coverage project called The Pilsen Interactive Media Project.

Thanks to the Jordanian for this film:

Printing a Book, Old School from Armin Vit on Vimeo.

(Are those scribes picketing in the background?)

i & u by j

From NYMag, via Gawker

More howling about the death of the printed book. Which may have died over three thousand times already.