2001
Joseph Tabbi responds to posts from the journal design editor and publisher, using terms derived from an essay he was editing at the time. The audience database mentioned here was implemented for ebr11, wEBaRts, and further developed for the launch of End Construction! (Feb 2002)
Publisher Mark Amerika's reaction to Burdick's proposal for ebr3.0...
A note on the origins and development of ebr version 3.0, End Construction!
In the fall of 1997, with the launch of ebr version 2.0, ebr editors Anne Burdick and Joseph Tabbi introduced a weaving metaphor to describe the journal interface. Three years later, Burdick sent in the following proposal for ebr 3.0, an entirely new version that enacts the metaphor using database technology.
Following Katherine Hayles, Matthew Kirschenbaum agrees that materiality matters.
Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.
Gene Kannenberg, Jr. finds the most well-publicized comic by one of America's most significant cartoonists to be technically accomplished, challenging as narrative but finally all too true to its title: the characters and situations in David Boring are in fact boring.
Mark Hansen responds to Linda Brigham's review of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing.
In her Sonic Spectrum survey, Elise Kermani invited readers to locate sounds on the spectrum from noise to sound to music. Here, Skip LaPlante responds with an autobiography in music, sound, and noise.
noise poem: Raymond Federman. audio recording and production: Eric Dean Rasmussen and Shaun Sandor
Jeff Parker contributes to the ongoing debate on electropoetics and invites readers to post their own link types and descriptions.
Paul C. Rapp, Esq., a.k.a. Lee Harvey Blotto, on the legal, cultural, and economic dimensions of the Napster controversy circa Y2K.
Lance Olsen reviews hypertext writing, past and present, by Robert Arellano.
Sue Im-Lee reviews Reciting America by Christopher Douglas.
Reviewing new scholarship by David Joselit, Molly Nesbit, Thierry de Duve, and Linda Henderson, Hannah Higgins proposes that writing about Duchamp needs to be Duchampian in flavor.
Linda Brigham works through Embodying Technesis by Mark Hansen.
With his software groovebox, Trace Reddell applies the tools and strategies of the DJ to the performance of literary interpretation and critical speculation.
Elizabeth Wall Hinds reviews Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, winner of the James Black Memorial Fiction Prize and the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Linda Carroli reviews Michael Joyce on networked culture, whose emergence changes our ideas of change.