Apologies for the extended absence last week. As some of you know I was having significant computer issues and was unable to get to a substitute machine. However, the good news is that during the downtime I was able to complete the first podcast, and I should have it posted late this week if all goes well.
I've written about
Twitter quite a lot on this blog. The microblogging site has quickly become the media darling of the tech set over the last year, and many creative people have initiated a number of interesting poetic projects within the Twitterverse. In the interest of diversifying content, we haven't covered every single Twitter-and-poetry-related story that has come along. But there's one that's been receiving a lot of attention lately, and I simply can't pass it up.
I'm talking about
Twitterature, a new collection published by Penguin Books comprised of the
tweets of Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin. In short, what they've done is take classic literature and summarize it in 20 tweets of 140 characters each. This
Yahoo! article from back in October gives a more detailed summary.
The tweets these guys have come up with are both humorous and, occasionally, insightful.
