Earlier today, one book editor asked how to blog. Over the weekend, another editor discovered how not to blog.

The website for godot recently released a 3,785-page pdf "book" that contained thousands of pages of apparently computer-generated poetry, all of it attributed to real people--including Walt Whitman, blogger Ed Champion, and poet Ron Silliman.

On his blog, Silliman called it "an act of anarcho-flarf vandalism" and warned the editor to think about angry "contributors" and potential lawsuits. Finally, he listed the name, phone number, and email address of the anthology editor.

The editor responded that the phone number was actually his parents' line, and described the work as a publishing experiment.

"I expected its size, format, and (to my eye) clearly algorithmically generated content to make our intentions clear. I wholeheartedly support the world of small press publishing and small press writing. Following the distribution of Issue 1, I would consider myself to be a member of that community on some small scale."