If you're not yet listed in the Directory but should be, please request a listing and an account. In the past we've been very slow to respond to requests for accounts, but we now have a staff, so all requests will get a swift response. Basically, any work that uses multimedia, interaction, real-time text generation, or reader collaboration will be included in the Directory.[Robert Kendall]
We have nearly 1,000 works listed in the Directory and we hope eventually to make it comprehensive and completely up to date. We can't do this without help from authors, though, so I hope you will all contribute by logging in and updating the information we have about you and your work.
There are still some problems with the version of the Directory that is currently live — most notably, not all the data in the records is currently displayed in the browsable listings. These problems have been fixed in the new version of the Directory that we are currently beta-testing and hope to launch next month.
Robert Kendall is a force in the online electronic and hypertext literature community. See also Word Circuits (Hypertext/Cybertext Poetry and Fiction), Electronic Literature Directory, and On-Line Class in Hypertext Poetry and Fiction (The New School).
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Recent posts there include:
- Clinton TV
- Toby imagines the scene in Crawford
- Anti-American screed from a Canadian in Baltimore
- U.S. assisted Iraq despite knowledge of poison-gas use in Iran war
- Scowcroft Against Armageddon
- Fanatical Empathy deconstructs 'Message: I care'
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12:20:43 PM say what []
I guess that means I could go four months without having to arrange for additional or alternative hosting space. Since so many of my technical problems of the last few days seem to have been related to my scraping so close the the ceiling, which prevented updates from upstreaming, I hope next time around I plan my Houdini act a little further in advance.
It's interesting how blog problems affected my mood yesterday and this morning. I have become dependent on this easy ability to express myself without delay. A lot of what blogging as a form uncorked was that pent of frustration with nitty-grit in the web-publishing process. Small tedia add up, causing inefficient process to scale badly. Not just badly: egregiously, eventually prohibitively. (That's four adverbs in a row for those scoring at home.)
When technical problems throttle back the freedom to spout, it is like a bruise to the psyche. One hears similar comments from Blogger users about occasional time-outs or server problems over there. It defeats the purpose of a blog if you can't use it on demand. I found myself thinking, I have other blogs. But still, I'm devoting so much of my attention to this one right now, that it didn't feel right to be prevented from updating.
I'm sure when my next paid writing project gets going, it will be harder to blog at whim. But that will be my problem to deal with, not yours.
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In "Weblogs of the Stars" the S.F. Chronicle discusses Wil Wheaton and RuPaul along with some clearly not-really-blog fansites for a few other celebrities
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Even then, though I'll need to replace the home page at blogs.salon.com/0001111/ with some sort of link or redirect to the new address, or it will look like a dead blog to anyone coming in from an old bookmark or link!
But how do I do that when my allocation is full? How do I clear out the remote host without killing my site?
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- My last few posts won't publish
- My site design won't update when applied to the home page or to categories
- Attempts to reach http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/2002/08/20.html lead to an error message
One issue may be that my "Cloud Status" shows 1% of 10.0MB free. Could it be that my new entries aren't posting because they are too big? But how could I possibly have filled 10 meg with most plain text in just a month? Also, my Radio pplication says "20 meg free," or more literally:
Radio UserLand 8.0.8: 20.0MB free, 8:51:29 AM; 5 threads; 9 hits.
So, really, I'm just confused, and frustrated.
Posting this to all categories in hopes of breaking the logjam.
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