[LEAuthors] LEAD: Live Chat with John Cayley 9 Oct 2006 @ 1100hrs (EDT)

[Nisar Keshvani, LEA]

Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5

:: Live chat with John Cayley about writing in immersive VR, new media
poetics, and other topics.
:: Chat date: Monday, October 9.
:: Chat time: 11am West Coat US / 2pm East Coast US / 8pm Paris FR / 4am
Melbourne AU
:: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special Issue of
Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

Chat instructions are below. The LEA website includes instructions and a
complete list of upcoming chats:
http://www.leoalmanac.org/journal/Vol_14/lea_v14_n05-06/forum.asp.

John Cayley is a London-based poet, translator, publisher and bookdealer.
Links to his writing in networked and programmable media are at
www.shadoof.net/in. His last printed book of poems, adaptations and
translations was Ink Bamboo (London: Agenda & Belew, 1996). Cayley was the
winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry 2001 (
www.eliterature.org). He is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department
of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London, and has taught and
directed research at the University of California San Diego and Brown
University, amongst other institutions. His most recent work explores
ambient poetics in programmable media, with parallel theoretical
interventions concerning the role of code in writing and the temporal
properties of textuality (bibliographic links are available from the shadoof
site).

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How to participate in the live chat?

Live chats will use Jabber (http://www.jabber.org/), an open, secure,
ad-free alternative to consumer IM services like AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo.
It is the most widely-used open source instant messaging and chat protocol.
The New Media Poetics chatroom is on the jabber.org public server under the
name "leanmp" and the password "leoalmanac." Follow three easy steps and you
are ready to join the chat:

1) Download and install a Jabber client. A list of recommended Jabber
clients is available at the following url:
http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml. For Windows users, we
recommend the Exodus client. For Macintosh users, please use Psi, as the
other recommended clients do not consistently register on the Jabber server.
For Linux, Psi is also available, but the other recommended clients should
work as well.

2) Register as a user on the jabber.org public server. When you first open
your Jabber client you will see a start screen. If you do not see this
screen, or if you are not starting the client for the first time, the screen
is also available in a pull down menu as Account Details or Preferences
(depending on your Jabber client). Enter a username, password, and server.
Use any username and password you choose. Enter "jabber.org" as the server.
When you register, if your proposed username is taken, you need to choose
another. Check the button for "new account" or to automatically register the
account (depending on your client). Note: you may not be able to register if
you are not using one of the recommended clients listed above. Hit OK or
Login. Your Jabber client will then automatically register you and connect
you to the jabber.org server.

3) At this point, you are ready to chat, but there is one more step: you
must join the chatroom. Select "Join a Chat Room" from your client's pull
down menu. Enter the name of the chat room: leanmp. Enter the password:
leoalmanac. You can also specify a nickname or "handle" to use while in the
chatroom. Hit "Finish" or "OK" to join the chat. The chat room window will
open and you are ready to go! Note: the chat room may not be available
outside of scheduled chat times.

Additional information is available at the Jabber userguide:
http://www.jabber.org/user/userguide
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