{"id":1010,"date":"2007-07-14T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2007-07-14T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T16:42:10","slug":"weekend_reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/14\/weekend_reading\/","title":{"rendered":"a little weekend reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/poetryfoundation.org\/harriet\/2007\/07\/writings_crisis_10.html \">post<\/a> by Kenneth Goldsmith at <a href=\"http:\/\/poetryfoundation.org\/harriet \">Harriet<\/a>, the blog of the Poetry Foundation about writing and the Web. Kenneth Goldsmith is probably best known&nbsp;&ndash; or not known?&nbsp;&ndash; to those who read if:book as the force behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/\">UbuWeb<\/a>; there was a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archinect.com\/features\/article.php?id=59857_0_23_0_C\">interview<\/a> with him recently at Archinect which provides a great deal of background on his work there. He&#8217;s also an accomplished poet; see, for example, his piece <i><a href=\"http:\/\/epc.buffalo.edu\/authors\/goldsmith\/soliloquy\/about.html\">Soliloquy<\/a><\/i>. In his post at Harriet, Goldsmith starts with a provocative statement: &#8220;With the rise of the web, writing has met its photography.&#8221; He argues that  writing needs to redefine itself for the new parameters the Web offers; it&#8217;s a provocative argument, and one that deserves to stir up a broad discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting post by Kenneth Goldsmith at Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation about writing and the Web. Kenneth Goldsmith is probably best known&nbsp;&ndash; or not known?&nbsp;&ndash; to those who read if:book as the force behind UbuWeb; there was a fascinating interview with him recently at Archinect which provides a great deal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1472,1923,2042],"tags":[2797],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kenneth_goldsmith","category-poetry","category-ubuweb","category-writing","tag-poetry-writing-kenneth_goldsmith-ubuweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}