(((Okay, if you believe in "hybrid media" or "creole media" or the "metamedium,"
there ought to be some kind of new emergent discourse where you are just typing merrily away, maybe reminiscing about your old friend Rudy...)))
(((And while carrying on some relatively coherent stream of prose, you ought to be able to not just "link" to stuff but somehow *semantically embed it* right into the "page." It's not like I merely "cut and paste" some video — it would be more like these sentences somehow *break into* video. Like comix, maybe... three pages of speech balloons and suddenly biff boom pow, the action-packed two-page center-spread.... What would comix look like if they were electronic ink displays and the cartoons were animated?)))
Link: Rudy Rucker on "Computation".
(((You may notice that this handheld video-chunk here is a "hybrid" video in the Lev Manovich sense.... This is Prof. Rudy Rucker calmly lecturing about something scarcely-imaginable on some streaming-radio application, and somebody also happens to have a teensy camera handy... Then it's got some spliced-up jumpy titling and sound-FX on the front-end and a strange little ad dumped on the back... Also, for some weird reason, this video page is trying to sell me a thousand raver glowsticks wholesale off eBay in order to support a cultural enterprise that I never bothered to buy...)))
(((Except, you know, this post-hybrid metamedium I'd attempting to describe would feel less *jumpy and chaotic* than this weblog-entry feels. There would be some kind of *artistic stability* to it... it wouldn't feel hybrid or creole, because it would have become an authentic new species of discourse... like a laminar flow breaking smoothly into a fizz of bubbles... a gnarly discourse. But, you know... in a nice way.)))
(((You know, I should call up Rudy, I should talk to him about this... Lookah that wise, calm, solemn, hipster-math-professor ascended-master type: he can get his head around weird stuff without flapping his wrists and losing it utterly... Hey, I got Skype sitting right here under this icon, I could call Rudy up, record it, stick the conversation right into this Rudy post... Wait, no no no, why stop there, I got an embedded MacBook iCam blankly staring at my face right now, I could just turn that on.... There must be thousands of people who've turned those cams on and never bothered to turn them off. Ever. Because the capacity is there now... you just turn on the information factory and you leave the room. No more quest for expressive excellence.... Why bother? Publish, then search.)))
