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  1. Dec 2015
    1. add more possibilities

      How about Twitter? I've ported A House of Dust to @ahouseofdust.

    2. 1,200-year-old poem

      Compare the ~ 1,900 - 2,700 year old bible in all its many translations and adaptations. How did those translations and adaptations change the meaning of the source, intentionally and unintentionally?

  2. Oct 2015
    1. (a) digital literary works for which computation is required only in the authoring process

      These would be excluded from the definitions given at the start by Mark Sample and the ELO, for which performance/delivery on a computery thing was also required.

    2. Parts 1 and 2 of this essay are available in more-or-less the same wording in a blog post on Grand Text Auto by by Noah Wardrip-Fruin: https://grandtextauto.soe.ucsc.edu/2005/08/01/christopher-strachey-first-digital-artist/

    1. The confrontation with technology at the level of creation is what distinguishes electronic literature from, for example, e-books, digitized versions of print works, and other products of print authors “going digital.”

      Here's Mark Sample's definition (bold emphasis mine):

      Electronic literature is literature that is born digitally, a literary work designed on a computer and meant to be "read" on a "computer".

      This part of the ELO definition covers the bold part. Earlier they cover the other part.

    2. works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer.

      Here's Mark Sample's definition (bold emphasis mine):

      Electronic literature is literature that is born digitally, a literary work designed on a computer and meant to be "read" on a "computer".

      This part of the ELO definition covers the bold part. Later they cover the other part.