I'm glad someone dealt with the question of whether the various sites are in keeping with Blake's intentions; in terms of my emerging overall stance, I don't think it matters, but in terms of interesting ways to evaluate these resources, it's one of the interesting-est.

But dude, you cannot blow "Digital Doppelganger" on a blog post. No disrespect to the blog, but that title's just meant for greater things.

I agree with Jess - I can't believe you used such a fabulous phrase here, when it was destined for bigger things.
I disagree with you regarding the Library of Congress site, though. I am not convinced that this mediation doesn't tell us something about how the Library of Congress views these texts - as artifacts, cultural objects. The text (and I mean hear the words on the page) are demoted on this site because they cannot be seaparted. The only search is for pages, as a way of indexing the object according to its working parts.

Fine. I changed the title. Your online strongarming worked.

I will look for the book-length "Digital Doppelganger" sometime in the near future.

How about this one: "Simulated Schadenfreude"?

Good read of the various mediations of Blake, bro. I'm always into the immersive thing.

Now I dare you to read mine (as if you're going to read this, three days after our last class).

I will look for the book-length "Digital Doppelganger" sometime in the near future.

How about this one: "Simulated Schadenfreude"?

Good read of the various mediations of Blake, bro. I'm always into the immersive thing.

Now I dare you to read mine (as if you're going to read this, three days after our last class).

All great stuff Marc, no matter what you might choose to call it. And I think there's no question that Blake would *hate* the Blake Archive for example, indeed the whole ontological basis for computing itself. Furthermore, I suspect our casual distinctions between the ludic and the documentary uses of the technology would fall by the wayside as he confronted the white-hot yet somehow cool surface of the display screen, the cascading fearful symmetries of rectilinear Cartesian space.