<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post116222506256576736..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116240131858385216</id><published>2006-11-01T12:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-01T12:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>:)  Andy.Yes.  This is the problem.  Hacked to dea...</title><summary type='text'>:)  Andy.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yes.  This is the problem.  Hacked to death and poisoned.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Old Politics and Treasons that, to this day, affect the way the world is going.  But who is going to try to understand it?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Some of us act as if the world will not end when in fact, we all die sooner or later and the world ends for us all, IN our lifetime.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;:)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Armageddon?  yes.  our own </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116240131858385216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116240131858385216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html?showComment=1162401300000#c116240131858385216' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116222506256576736' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116222506256576736' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116236605166616489</id><published>2006-11-01T02:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-01T02:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, there&#39;s plenty of actual work out there, whic...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, there&#39;s plenty of actual work out there, which you&#39;ll see if you do more research on the subject by practitioners instead of taking Hayles&#39;s word for it. There are also a number of MFA/fine arts programs producing the stuff now, too.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One of the things that pleases me the most about the issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac that I edited (currently available at leoalmanac.org, which </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116236605166616489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116236605166616489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html?showComment=1162366020000#c116236605166616489' title=''/><author><name>Tim Peterson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04933998770428587146</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116222506256576736' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116222506256576736' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1753046145"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116233663143241838</id><published>2006-10-31T18:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-31T18:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fascinating stuff, Lilac. I didn&#39;t know about the ...</title><summary type='text'>Fascinating stuff, Lilac. I didn&#39;t know about the purges of memorizers and textual scholars... up to the present day, too. Jeez. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also: &lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Isa (SAW) known to you guys as &quot;Jesus Christ&quot; did not speak latin. Ah sure, I&#39;ll bet he would have obtained permission to do so if it was what was needed&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Tee hee. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Blake Test seems iffy to me, at least in as extreme a form as</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116233663143241838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116233663143241838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html?showComment=1162336620000#c116233663143241838' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116222506256576736' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116222506256576736' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116228376642993708</id><published>2006-10-31T03:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-31T03:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Song of Solomon was not...written in Latin and...</title><summary type='text'>The Song of Solomon was not...written in Latin and as far as I know...the poem called the Bible is no longer extant...but like Homer...it is a compendium of cultural memory.  The Gutenberg is simply one of the &quot;oldest surviving scraps&quot; of the Canonical Literature THOUGHT to be the Bible but as I stated:  Isa (SAW) known to you guys as &quot;Jesus Christ&quot; did not speak latin.  Ah sure, I&#39;ll bet he </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116228376642993708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116228376642993708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html?showComment=1162283760000#c116228376642993708' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116222506256576736' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116222506256576736' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116227500382032796</id><published>2006-10-31T01:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-31T01:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Indeed, many of the works we would soon see were c...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;Indeed, many of the works we would soon see were composed in Inform 6, a program that itself has already been superceded.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Inform 6 -- just like every other version of Inform, including the new one -- compiles code to run on the Z-Machine, a virtual computer designed by Infocom in the early 80s to allow easy portability to the dozens of computers that Infocom sold games for. It </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116227500382032796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116227500382032796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html?showComment=1162275000000#c116227500382032796' title=''/><author><name>Chris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02753293444363805371</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116222506256576736' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116222506256576736' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-838935920"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116227098312189697</id><published>2006-10-31T00:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-31T00:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Um, pardon but did Homer rhyme?Good old Milton men...</title><summary type='text'>Um, pardon but did Homer rhyme?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Good old Milton mentioned his own blank verse being &quot;without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek&quot;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe dactylic hexameter &amp; epithets were actually the &quot;first storage technology known to our species&quot;, as they&#39;re what I always heard made homeric poetry memorizable.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116227098312189697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116227098312189697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html?showComment=1162270980000#c116227098312189697' title=''/><author><name>tad smythe</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06715592167014784002</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116222506256576736' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116222506256576736' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-206637845"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116226401376797660</id><published>2006-10-30T22:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-30T22:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It seems like the Blake Test is an odd thing to im...</title><summary type='text'>It seems like the Blake Test is an odd thing to impose. It seems to me that some platform transitions--say, oral to written--are easier than others. Historically speaking, some media have come later than others, and built on those that preceded them. For something like film, for instance, to what does the Blake Test extend? Video? Quicktime? Stills? A soundtrack?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That said, I am so on </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116226401376797660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116226401376797660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html?showComment=1162263960000#c116226401376797660' title=''/><author><name>Natalia</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07898457401179147102</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116222506256576736' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116222506256576736' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-864892245"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116226287989023956</id><published>2006-10-30T21:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-30T21:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Does a poem really need to be platform independent...</title><summary type='text'>Does a poem really need to be platform independent to survive? If so, is it the same poem after transfer to a different platform? It&#39;s like an act of translation. Is a poem in translation the same poem or a new poem?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;On a bit of a tangent -- but maybe pertinent in a way -- you might be interested in my argument that &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.rightreading.com/printing/gutenberg.asia/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116226287989023956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116226287989023956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html?showComment=1162262820000#c116226287989023956' title=''/><author><name>Uke Xensen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14925310033193507314</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116222506256576736' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116222506256576736' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-191445863"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116226172250053490</id><published>2006-10-30T21:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-10-30T21:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I do think that the argument over the Blake Test v...</title><summary type='text'>I do think that the argument over the Blake Test versus the ‘evolving platforms’ is and should be one of limits.  There is the possibility that with the new technology comes new limits for poetry both foreseen and unforeseen.  That said, the Blake Test shouldn’t itself be an imposition of limits.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116226172250053490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116222506256576736/comments/default/116226172250053490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html?showComment=1162261680000#c116226172250053490' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/10/imagine-how-much-harder-it-would-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116222506256576736' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116222506256576736' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 30, 2006"/></entry></feed>