Tag Archives | web2.0
The Web v. the Book

The Web v. the Book

When I spoke at the Norman Mailer Society Conference in 2005, I was asked to discuss the position of literature and English Studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century, how the work of Norman Mailer fit into these cultural and intellectual trends, and recommend ways that the Society might continue to flourish in a still incunabular information age.

Read full story

RoopleTheme

I found some excellent Drupal themes from RoopleTheme. I used one for the Mailer Society’s site and one for The Mailer Review site. Thanks for the professional work, guys. While the themes are excellent as is, I know I’ll be tweaking them a little bit.

Read full story
The Machine Is Us/ing Us

The Machine Is Us/ing Us

The Web 2.0 in under two minutes.

Read full story

Emurse Rocks!

The guys over at Emurse are doing a bang-up job. I wrote about Emurse a little while ago, but it has grown quite a bit since then. If you don’t know, Emurse (an anagram for résumé, kinda) is a Web 2.0 site that will host an online résumé (or in my case, a cv) with [...]

Read full story
Standpedia

Standpedia

Another cool Web 2.0 site I discovered recently is Standpedia. On their FAQ, they call it a “wiki-style encyclopedia of controversy” where “tough questions are answered from a variety of perspectives, instead of a single ‘neutral point of view.’” What I like about the site is that they encourage users to problematize ideas, rather than [...]

Read full story

New Stuff

I have been as busy as a busy thing lately, and my blog has suffered for it. I know that nobody really reads this thing, so this is just a personal admonition. I truly believe that writing is something that needs to be used, or it will evanesce quicker than a Hummer burns gas. Anyway, [...]

Read full story

Writely

As if Google Notebook wasn’t cool enough. Now there’s Writely, an online word processor that seems to have been acquired by Google (of course). Who needs Word when you can do all of your word processing online? According to their web site, documents can be shared and stored online, to be edited from any web [...]

Read full story