Hugh Nicoll's Blog

The Plaintext project is concerned with the agency and programming of writing technologies. Plaintext Tools is a listserv and portal for writers, artists, and thinkers, with the goal of creating and publishing original research, providing resources, and fostering community around the tools and methods of writing technologies. A full description of the project, as well as info on subscribing to the list, is on the Plaintext project web site.

This takes on additional relevance for me both as my desires to become more technically proficient with understanding the foundations of computing, and, in a mundane way, every time I have to struggle with all the formatting junk clogging student posts to course web logs when they copy and paste word documents directly into Frontier/Manila course websites.