Three different events are celebrating these days the mutations of the word through new media and the significant possibility of recombination semiotics and semantics they offer. It has just ended, in fact E (X) literature , a conference on preservation, storage and distribution of electronic literature held at the University of California at Santa Barbara. After the heartfelt opening speech of Katherine Hayles last year when the dreaded early obsolescence of many works due to the rapid replacement of hardware and software and is increasingly blurred 'backwards compatibility', this year the sessions focused on the initiatives of protection, on the relationship between artists and literary electronic, open source solutions and migration strategies outlined in the recent book 'The New Media Reader' of the MIT Press. E-Poetry 2003 , however, is an international festival of digital poetry that is held at the West Virginia University. In addition to the techniques of writing and the specific mechanization and nomadicity of this type of literature, the manifestation of the space dedicated also to poetry and the aesthetics of the programming code. Available online a few days ago, finally, the fifth issue of the ezine electronic literature Culture Machine , directed by Gary Hall. Among the contributors are not lacking prominent names as the same with Katherine Hayles' Deeper into the Machine: The Future of Electronic Literature ', with Mark Amerika' Literary Ghosts', yet Gary Hall with 'The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project (Original Pirate Copy) '.