Blake Butler, a graduate of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was profiled by Al Jazeera America as a leading literary figure in the emerging Digital South. Butler is the founder of htmlgiant, a site for indepedently published authors. Butler uses the internet to combine his multimedia design education at Georgia Tech with his passion for writing. The article addresses Butler's "presence on the internet, a densely populated nonplace." Butler told Al Jazeera America, "I like being nowhere, and I want to go deeper into the nowhere." Read more at Al Jazeera America.