For those who are interested, I just published a new episode of my online web-novel, The Data Yodeler. I write two new episodes every week, and appreciate your insight and support as I work my way through this massive, multi-year project. Below is an excerpt from Episode 37 / Just Photons and Pixels Beth frowned at me, and I was almost certain it was laced with disappointment. And the worst part of it was — as I discovered later, peeking over her shoulder as she cross-loaded the day’s photos onto the server — the images she’d captured in the hour prior to my confession were glowing works of art when compared to the uninspired snapshots she’d snapped in the fifteen minutes following as we’d walked [...]

For those who are interested, I just published a new episode of my online web-novel, The Data Yodeler. I write two new episodes every week, and appreciate your insight and support as I work my way through this massive, multi-year project. Below is an excerpt from Episode 35 / More Gum Luv Those who have been following this narrative may recall that, in an effort avoid killing what little credibility that remained between us and the Cheeky Chewing Gum Company, we had opted to exercise our creativity under the banner of temporary art. The blog was transient. The photos were wisps of data on the net. The status updates floated like bubbles amongst the reams of data and popped when their relevance expired moments later. [...]

For those who are interested, I just published a new episode of my online web-novel, The Data Yodeler. I write two new episodes every week, and appreciate your insight and support as I work my way through this massive, multi-year project. Below is an excerpt from Episode 34 / Overdraft And I, that human Russ, cherished those brief minutes between waking and — as we called it — lighting up. And I, that unshared human, particularly cherished moments when I needed do nothing more than stare blankly into a mirror idly inspecting my reflection, tugging at bits of skin around my mouth, razoring the morning growth from my cheeks and chin, dusting sleep from my eyes, brushing my teeth, ruffing my short hair with my [...]

For those who are interested, I just published a new episode of my online web-novel, The Data Yodeler. I write two new episodes every week, and appreciate your insight and support as I work my way through this massive, multi-year project. Below is an excerpt from Episode 33 / Crush I want to claim that the last two weeks had been eventful. But as was usual with The Data Yodeler Project, that was a relative term. In fact things had been exceptionally — relatively — quiet. We continued to generate content. We continued to acquire audience. We continued to pound away submitting links to aggregators. We wrote. We recorded. We podcast. We captured images of gum hung from landmarks around the city, ensuring that every [...]

For those who are interested, I just published a new episode of my online web-novel, The Data Yodeler. I write two new episodes every week, and appreciate your insight and support as I work my way through this massive, multi-year project. Below is an excerpt from Episode 32 / Copycat Closer “Russ.” Shen-Li shouted from the media room. “Russ — everybody — get in here!” We tripped over each other dashing from our desks and clambering to close the short distance. Shen-Li was reclined on our faux-leather couch, mouth agape as she watched the local television news, the short segment she had hailed us to witness just drawing to an end as we arrived. “…Though representatives from the local gum company were reluctant to comment [...]

For those who are interested, I just published a new episode of my online web-novel, The Data Yodeler. I write two new episodes every week, and appreciate your insight and support as I work my way through this massive, multi-year project. Below is an excerpt from Episode 31 / BlackBerry Gun It had been dinner and six of us were seated around the little egg-shaped table in the centre of our headquarters and sharing a trio of pizzas. Beth sat beside her mother and I sat beside Beth. The other three congregated around the opposite side of the curve willfully containing their amusement at the continuing charade of Beth’s deception regarding her faux-relationship with me. And I was fairly certain I had settled the issue [...]