My first thought? This is the perfect story to tell on the internet. A sponsored new media team creates a website hoping to become renowned, while also wrestling creative pressure, the anonymity of the internet and the demands of a corporate sponsor. It’s a story of what all our online novels hope to do, told in the format of an online novel. And with references to word-count, feeds, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and other blogging and social networking spheres, this online novel is preaching to the right audience.

Whether or not it delivers remains to be seen. Clocking in so far at 10 chapters the story is only starting to truly begin—at least for me. The foreshadowing of the tragic end gets heavyhanded and the characters too are still slightly murky to me, with only Beth clearly defined. Even Russ, from whose point of view we’re reading, is a bit too mysterious. Hopefully the pace will pick up, and the characteriation will sharpen, in upcoming chapters.

The writing itself is clean and clear, with the parts breaking at good moments that made me want to keep reading. I read all ten chapters without deliberating if I wanted to keep going or not—an ability for which I applaud the author.

The Data Yodeler is a story I’ll be keeping an eye on for sure.

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