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Electronic Literature Conference

Andrew Klobucar and I have just come back from the Electronic Literature Organization
conference in Vancouver WA this past weekend where 120 artists and
scholars met to present and talk about electronic literature. Hosted by

Of course, we are not wondering why that plunger is on Jon's face; more to the point, our surprise actually derives from our wondering why we are not wondering why that plunger is on Jon's face, and in that question lies the particular anxiety currently inscribing our interactions, both on-screen and off-screen, today.

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progress_2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

progress on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Fishing for Further SuggestionsCultureNet faculty are always bending the spines of books and scrolling through online publications - new and old - that speak to our shared interest in the ways that technology gets around to shaping us and us technology. A few titles recently traded between CNET faculty include:Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, Steel (1997)Andrew Feenberg's Transforming Technology

With the release of the open source Firefox browser, numerous spin off projects have been launched building off the core Firefox browsing functionality. Two of the more interesting offshoots are Flock and Songbird.

Flock advertises itself as a "social browser" because of its built in support for many social networking services such as Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati and others. Songbird describes itself as a mishmash digital jukebox, web browser and media player with some interesting features for "playing the web".

As an accompaniment to their New Media Poetics and Poetry special issue, LEA will be hosting a series of online discussions .

What is the LEA New Media Poetics Special ?

Guest edited by Tim Peterson, the issue features Loss Pequeño Glazier, John Cayley with Dimitri Lemmerman, Lori Emerson, Phillippe Bootz, Manuel Portela, Stephanie Strickland, Mez, Maria Engberg and Matthias Hillner. Don't forget to scurry over to the equally exciting gallery, exhibiting works by Jason Nelson, Aya Karpinska, Daniel Canazon Howe, mIEKAL aND, CamillE BacoS, Nadine Hilbert and Gast Bouschet.

Fun times all around ! Google has finally released "version 1" of their N-gram word data sets through the Linguistic Data Consortium. For $150 US, you too can own the following on a 6 DVD set:

File sizes: approx. 24 GB compressed (gzip'ed) text files



Number of tokens:    1,024,908,267,229
Number of sentences:    95,119,665,584
Number of unigrams:         13,588,391
Number of bigrams:         314,843,401
Number of trigrams:        977,069,902
Number of fourgrams:     1,313,818,354
Number of fivegrams:     1,176,470,663

I came to the nora project via a mention of it on the Text Analytics mailing list. The goal of the project is to support Humanities scholars in the interpretation of literary works. I had a look at the demo video which shows the use of the noraVis prototype data mining and visualization software.

The demo video can be viewed here .