Sometimes I look around and I hate what the web has become.

Years and years ago when I first came to the web, back in the mid nineties, my favorite website was called “Wisteria”. It was a whimsical, beautiful, personal website that explored mythology, fairytales, kitchen magic (homemade cosmetics and organic cleaning supplies, etc.) gardening, and […]

We, the writers, the artists, those of us that create ideas and instill them in our culture, have a moral obligation to provide free culture, to wrest control of what we read, view, and consume from corporations and government and provide it ourselves, for ourselves. We have the obligation to make the fundamentals of our culture—our literature, music, film, art—accessible and readily available to those who want to touch it, absorb it, learn from it.

The challenge that academia faces is psychological and epistemological. We have to teach our content experts, those people who are intimately involved in the goings-on of the college and who can gauge the college’s temperament, to keep the web at the forefront of their minds.