Hypercompendia

I’m thrilled to see this happening and happy to pass along the news of a great new website focused on HYPERTEXT. There’s a permanent link here to HTLit on the sidebar here and on Spinning. I’m going to copy and paste the announcement from Mark Bernstein here, as no one can say it better:

Eastgate is happy to announce the launch of  HTLit:

http://HTLit.com

HTLit focuses on reading, writing, and teaching hypertext, with daily news and useful compendia.

We hope this site will create a community in which hypertext creators, scholars, and critics can share new hypertext works, research, and teaching methods.  We’ll follow technological trends, emerging artists, and issues involving publishing, writing, and digital media.

HTLit takes a broad view of hypertext, and will cover all electronic literature and narrative new media as well as game theory, nonfiction hypertexts, electronic poetry, and inventive real-world applications of hypertext. We seek inspiration wherever we can.

The site will also include a wiki aimed at promoting discussion and collaboration.  We hope that the wiki will serve as the meeting place for researchers and creators to share their latest work to provide leads and inspiration upon which others might build. It will also serve as a portal to existing research, and a place for scholars to share their work and their sources.  To limit wikiSpam, wiki editing will be limited to HTLit patrons who subscribe for a modest fee.

We encourage you to lend a hand on the Wiki, and also to join us as a correspondent.  Send us links to interesting new media work, criticism, and tools. Tell us about courses, techniques. Show us terrific art.  We’ll give you thanks, a byline, and cash.  Here’s the scoop:

http://www.HTLit.com/Correspondents.html

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD.  Your links and Twittering make a real difference.

Please follow us on Twitter @htlit. Re-tweets and links are appreciated!

As always, thanks for your support of Eastgate!