From January of 2007 to January of 2008 I wrote a biweekly column for the Philadelphia Inquirer called DigitaLit. I used the column to report on the places where traditional literary forms meet new media, and in effect create new forms.

The first column profiles a writer named L. Lee Lowe, who is publishing her YA novel for free in weekly installments on her blog, along with podcast readings of the book by a theater student. Her work is very much in the DIY tradition of creating an open culture in which art is freely accessible, not to mention fluid—as long as she doesn't publish in print, Lowe can keep making changes to her book. The column runs in the Currents section of the Inquirer every other Sunday. Click to read the others, which are about:

*an archive of poetry MP3s (freebie: I mention Richard Hell)
*a Mexican computer that writes fiction
*an e-pistolary novel, get it?
*how professors teach the new literature
*sneaky people who blog as their own fictional characters
*an electronic-lit journal that shows how uncategorizable some of this stuff is
*an incredible digital memory bank about the shootings at Virginia Tech
*poem sparks!
*digital artists who put an e- in the Mail Art movement
*poets and fiction writers in the 3-D multi-user online environment (don't call it a game) Second Life
*librarians and teachers who sometimes live a Second Life
*action poetry! this one has cool pictures
*a couple of very clever people whose virtual Factory spits out Lit
*poetry podcasts with all the passion and quirk appeal of ham radio
*the more the merrier: digital artists and writers collaborate and get interesting results
*a neat project that pays homage to Ada Lovelace, who helped Charles Babbage invent the Analytical Engine
*a musican who feeds voice recognition software guitar music and the poet who turns the word salad into art.
*how old ideas about intellectual property are changing. better recognize.
*big readers who catalog their personal zine and book collections
*a beautiful piece of interactive fiction that's a bit like a game or a digital film too
*a poet who conducted a charming "tour" of readings from the rooms in her apartment and put them online