In college, I wrote software documentation for mainframe users, which meant I had the opportunity to use text editors and word processors on a variety…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Writing
Yesterday, I defended my doctoral dissertation and paid the last $120 in fees to the University of Minnesota. For the cost of tuition, they really…
Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley March 2010 Issue January 23, 2010 Will Textbooks Go Digital… and Free? California schools spend nearly $500 million each year on…
Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley February 2010 Issue December 29, 2009 Words on a Screen: E-Books are the Future Amazon’s Kindle is now the best-selling product…
Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley December 2009 Issue October 22, 2009 Software to Help the Writer Within Winter tends to drive me inside. I don’t mind…
I attended Computers and Writing 2009 earlier this month and returned with mixed emotions. First, the negatives — so I can end on the positives of…
I have been on the Internet since the 1980s. I have located messages I posted in college via the USENET, now more than 25 years…
This is a portion of my summer (re)reading list, at least on one particular subject matter. I am reading various books on type and design.…
If I have to think of what things have changed my life, the answer is simple: computers. I have owned quite a few. If I…
For a Digital Writing Course I posted a response to Geoffrey Sirc’s “Box Logic” (Writing New Media, 2004) that might have been my reaction to…