Wow, what a weekend.
New site / back end with slight re-branding went live before the symposium...
e.g. No exclamation mark after fantods, "News and Resources" rather than "News, Info and Links" etc. Everything is running significantly faster now, but there are still broken links all over (especially search engine traffic links - but I've redirected and/or fixed all the major ones so I don't think that will be an ongoing issue). If something points you to the 404 page, be sure to follow the link there to report the problem. I'm making my way through each section - slowly - correcting things.
Comments and registrations are back on (login via the drop-down module top right). ALL the old accounts have been migrated, so your old logins and passwords should work. If they don't drop me a line and I'll fix it for you ASAP.
Blogroll. Long time coming, but these are sites that often (sometimes always) have a DFW focus and I like checking up on them regularly. Maybe you will too?
RSS feed. Take a moment to subscribe to the new feed, the old one (poorly functioning one) will be disabled soon.
Design wise I've modified a basic template. Emphasis on basic. Things were getting too crowded, and I know most visits are to the front page to check up on the latest Wallace news. Additionally, I know plenty of you follow me on twitter, and often I have related tweets/retweets that I may not have had time to post to the full site (or are things that are already here) so I've added the little twitter plugin - it's an experiment. I'm hoping it will mean that those of you not using twitter will have quicker access to breaking updates, but that I won't feel as much pressure to complete the cross post absolutely everything. I guess we'll see.
(Heaps more after the break)
Wow, what a weekend.
New site / back end with slight re-branding went live before the symposium...
e.g. No exclamation mark after fantods, "News and Resources" rather than "News, Info and Links" etc. Everything is running significantly faster now, but there are still broken links all over (especially search engine traffic links - but I've redirected and/or fixed all the major ones so I don't think that will be an ongoing issue). If something points you to the 404 page, be sure to follow the link there to report the problem. I'm making my way through each section - slowly - correcting things.
Comments and registrations are back on (login via the drop-down module top right). ALL the old accounts have been migrated, so your old logins and passwords should work. If they don't drop me a line and I'll fix it for you ASAP.
Blogroll. Long time coming, but these are sites that often (sometimes always) have a DFW focus and I like checking up on them regularly. Maybe you will too?
RSS feed. Take a moment to subscribe to the new feed, the old one (poorly functioning one) will be disabled soon.
Design wise I've modified a basic template. Emphasis on basic. Things were getting too crowded, and I know most visits are to the front page to check up on the latest Wallace news. Additionally, I know plenty of you follow me on twitter, and often I have related tweets/retweets that I may not have had time to post to the full site (or are things that are already here) so I've added the little twitter plugin - it's an experiment. I'm hoping it will mean that those of you not using twitter will have quicker access to breaking updates, but that I won't feel as much pressure to complete the cross post absolutely everything. I guess we'll see.
The menus on the left are about to get a complete redesign to incorporate several new sections with a special focus on the books being published about Wallace.
And it seems to be functioning better on mobile and other browsers. If not, please let me know.
The David Foster Wallace Symposium at the Harry Ransom Centre...
Was amazing. I learned much more than I expected, and the wide ranging conversations was fantastic. I know those of you who were there had a great time - please remember I am very jealous of you all. Videos of all sessions can be found here and will remain online at least for a little while longer (Yes, the name of the first file is missing a 01, I was in a hurry). I've almost caught up on the lost sleep.
The Pale King Paperback and Conversations with David Foster Wallace...
Have both not got as much love as I'd hoped this weekend. I've now read the new material appended to the back of paperback The Pale King, and as others have mentioned it varies in quality, but the final piece of the four is worth the price of entry. Worth re-buying if you already bought the hardback? I'm not the best person to answer that as I would have bought it anyway, but I certainly understand the concerns.
Stephen Burn's collection, Conversations with David Foster Wallace is excellent. Wallace's voice in a wide variety of interviews, collected all in the same place, has won me over. To discover that Burn has the Second Edition of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide on the way too, due on April 19th (pre-order on Amazon) had somehow slipped me by. Read a preview of the opening 20 or so pages of Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide right here.
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