please post AND comment! and progress...

Hi there --

I've just sent out an invitation to each of you (to your Goddard email addresses) to join this blog as authors. That way, everyone can post, and comment on each other's posts.

Mónica, this should resolve the difficulty you were having with posting to the blog.

The one feature I cannot seem to locate on blogger.com is threaded comments -- that is, the capacity for us to comment on each other's comments. I think this would be a great feature and I'm looking into switching to wordpress.com, where I think I'll be able to enable threaded comments. That way, for instance, Rick's comment to Mónica would appear directly below her comment (and indented, to signal that it is a comment on her comment), rather than as its own independent comment at the end of all the comments. Even if we don't switch, we can start specific conversational threads (about, for instance, book binding, or about ways to remove glue stains from clothing, or whatever) as new posts and then comment on those topics within those posts, but still I think it would be preferable to have threaded comments.

I'll keep you posted (no pun intended -- ha!), and let you know, of course, if we're going to switch blog "locations."

Meanwhile, I'm totally thrilled to hear about the progress of your projects! I've begun my collaboration, which consists of a poem and a prose text about collaboration, both of which are being bounced back and forth via email. Having just published a book of collaborations, I'm excited to take a bit of time to contemplate the experience of collaboration with my friend Patrick (the co-author of the book). Later on, once I have a sense of the forms our texts are taking, I'll figure out an appropriate format for the book, using (as I mentioned before) repurposed office supplies.

Excited to see how things continue to develop with your projects -- and feel free to bring up any specific technical or logistical issues that are coming up, so we can put our virtual heads together and try to help each other out.

Fondly,

Jen