I thought you might get a kick out of a podcasting project I'm doing with my English 652 (digital rhetoric & pedagogy class). It was their first time doing something like this, but I think it turned out pretty good. I've submitted it to iTunes, but who knows how long their review process will take. In the meantime, you can enjoy it here or at iTunes.

There's a story on CNET about how an agent has published 20 novels from Mailer, Roth, Bellow, Updike, and others directly to Kindle--bypassing big publishers. The end result is a much higher royalty for the authors, though the author of the piece (Carnoy) points out that these ebooks are too expensive ($10) and quite spartan. Another downside (or perhaps upside if Amazon markets them heavily) is that they're exclusive to the Kindle for 2 years.

"O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?"

Three short animations, based on three sections of Wallace Stevens' famous poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". Part of a work in progress.

http://www.edwardpicot.com/blackbird/

- Edward Picot
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website