Book + Blog = Blook!
Of course! This idea has been on the tip of my tongue for a year now, leave it to a horror writer to fully articulate it. Read this interview with I, Death author Mark Leslie, which consists of a 1/3 to 1/8th of a chapter of his book released every day, which you subscribe to via RSS. Also peep Hackoff, another mystery working the same angle. Are we witnessing the exact moment where a new form of literature begins to supplant an old one? Time (and not much of it) will tell....
ADDENDA: While we're on the subject, some thoughts. First, the Internet is in danger of a corporate stranglehold. While I'm hopeful about radical free WiFi initiatives like FON (basically, you get their router and start giving your wireless to your 'hood for free) and post-Internet technology like the NeteraNet and "lightpaths", we could face the very real possibility of an internet banalization within the next five years, squelching our collective info/media landscape into something just slightly more exciting than late-80s network TV. To fight back, consider this: an endless WiFi "fictionsphere" of serialized RSS blook-stories (and serialized video blog movies, audio blogs concept albums) further blurring the already-contingent fiction/nonfiction beachhead, a vast text-churn of fictions making-themselves-real before our very eyes, available everywhere on your handheld. Wicked, man.
ADDENDA: While we're on the subject, some thoughts. First, the Internet is in danger of a corporate stranglehold. While I'm hopeful about radical free WiFi initiatives like FON (basically, you get their router and start giving your wireless to your 'hood for free) and post-Internet technology like the NeteraNet and "lightpaths", we could face the very real possibility of an internet banalization within the next five years, squelching our collective info/media landscape into something just slightly more exciting than late-80s network TV. To fight back, consider this: an endless WiFi "fictionsphere" of serialized RSS blook-stories (and serialized video blog movies, audio blogs concept albums) further blurring the already-contingent fiction/nonfiction beachhead, a vast text-churn of fictions making-themselves-real before our very eyes, available everywhere on your handheld. Wicked, man.
posted by Paul S. at
7:26 AM
1 Comments:
thats not really a new idea.
sure the concept of a blog is a new delivery system, and it has more democratic access than ever before, but a story in installments? Great expectations comes to mind.
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