Bill Bly

Bill Bly, Partner - Information Design (writer and hypertext maven) Bill worked with Chris and Pam at DMR as a Y2K warrior in the run-up to the roll-over, and thereafter as knowledge librarian for the KM Team, where he project-managed the Y2K World Library and ResearchNet, an international network of Knowledge Librarians. Present almost since the creation of Knowledge Street, Bill does research and writing as well as consulting on information and narrative design. Bill holds a BA in drama from Allegheny College and an MFA in Playwriting from Carnegie-Mellon, and for 30 odd years taught writing, literature, theatre history, and hypertext in a variety of colleges and universities in New York and eastern Pennsylvania. He's also freelanced as a writer, editor, coach, a script doctor for corporate video, and an online course developer. In the early 1990s, Bill read an article by Robert Coover in the New York Times Book Review describing a new kind of writing. It was called hypertext (to use the old term for electronic literature or digital writing) and promised to revolutionize the way we tell stories. Bill jumped on board, publishing his first novel, We Descend, as a disk-based hypertext that can only be read on a computer, but whose stories can be read in a variety of ways. Bill is also a Senior JollyGoodFellow at the Center for Peripheral Studies, a virtual think tank.

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