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I came across the following link while tidying up my website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lectures.shtml
I guess most of you will have listened to it already but if you haven't it is pertinent to all discussion on digital life
It is easy listening, too. I sat engrossed for hours after coming out of hospital a year or two ago.
An interesting piece on CTheory by Nicholas Rombes entitled The Rebirth of the Author which puts forward the idea that Blogging is very much living proof that the Author is far from dead. Not so long back some new media theory was championing hypertext as working proof of the truths of post-structuralism (Landow et al) and now it seems it can disprove it too!
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=480
He also has some interesting things to say about academic writing and the nature of authorship and digital technology.
