Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capliano Review is exploration of the formal and functional properties of RSS. Author J. R. Carpenter uses blogging, tagging and other Web 2.0 tools to mark-up and interlink the twelve essays of TCR 2-50 and to insert additional meta-layers of commentary in order to play with, expose, expand upon, and subvert formal structures of writing, literature, and literary criticism. Working with other authors’ texts requires care, consideration and careful research. Feeding fragments of images and texts into multiple streams requires organization and, often, alphabetization. To that end, Data Processor Babble Brook has been employed.
BABBLE BROOK is a run-off of the Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams project. Her early studies in vector based arcade games and diploma in touch-typing from Mavis Beacon make her an ideal research assistant. J. R. Carpenter recruited her right out of Lambda MOO. Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams subscribes to Babble Brook’s Flickr RSS: http://www.flickr.com/photos/textfedstream/ and del.icio.us bookmarks feed: http://del.icio.us/textfedstream and in her spare time she helps manage the Tributaries facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7898927826
other islands in this text-fed stream
