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I thought the Poundstone piece on Bebe, de Cosino, and Thomas was--interesting. One characteristic of this chunk of new meaty-a art, I noticed, was its fascination with historical and intellectual arcana. To a certain extent, when all the techie frills are charred away, we're left with Welsh hooliganism, loogies on an Italian wall, and two scrappy dwarves (a la the film, "Time Bandits"). Visually, Poundstone's pieces are eye-grabbing, for example, during the Foucault and madness sections where, quite effectively, an eerie array of turquoise blobs pulses and fades against the blindingly neon lime-chartreuse background. In other instances, I found that since I wasn't allowed, as user, to control the speed of the text, much of what I wanted to "digest" was, due to the medium itself, undigestable; reading a book, I would have been able to pause, reflect, think, process, and wonder--all mental functions that Poundstone's medium prohibited. Critique: Poundstone's substance, engaging; his medium, at times prohibitive and "anti-thought" even?

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One of the tools that can be used in research and teaching is the weblog or "blog." What's fundamental to a weblog of whatever sort is the ability to easily post a chronological sequence of entries to a web space. These blogs will not be widely adverised but are on the open web -- so theoretically a diligent searcher who was not a member of our community might access what you post. Keep the "public sphere" nature of web-based work in mind as you use your blog, and as you comment upon the blogs of others.