Joyce's Ulysses via Twitter: oddly addictive


	Joyce's Ulysses via Twitter: oddly addictive

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4-3-2007 10:45 PM

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literature, web, 2.0, weird, cool

enbar says:

A bot at the Institute for the Future of the Book is "reading" an etext of Joyce's Ulysses to the world via Twitter -- a line every twenty minutes or so. I thought this was incredibly stupid, but I keep coming back to see what's new.

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