Tools Built by Anonymous Ancestors

"Bill Marsh is an interesting figure in the ever-expanding world of digital writing. A West Coast writer not to my knowledge connected in any way with the early Eastgate Systems hypertext theorists and writers, he’s part of a new group of authors taking hypertext in new directions –– and the use of sound as an integral element in digital writing is clearly one of those directions. In 'Tools . . .' Marsh composes a series of 'poems' by building a site that allows readers to play with a range of visual and aural images derived from web searches using only the words 'tools built by anonymous ancestors.'" -- From Ed Falco, The New River Journal, May 2004