I’ve been thinking about this dynamic of a person writing a post and then other people responding with comments. It’s a kind of asymmetric conversation. It would be interesting to allow that conversation to include procedural things.
Suppose the comment writers could script a program as a way to advance the conversation. Can something that we generally think of as a “mechanism” be used to further dialog between people?The only way to find out is to try.
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if (number_of_comments == 0) {
Add_Comment(subject.original_post,new_data : relevance(opinion)>1;
elseif (relevance(most_recent_comment.original_post)>1 {
Add_Comment(subject.original_post|synthesis(recent_comments.original_post, opinion);
endif
Wait_for_new_post();
LOL LOL LOL Excellent !
it’s a bit off topic, but it’s at least about,ahm, re-interpreting comments. And I just came across it reading boingboing:
Bloog: The RSS Mod-Synth
http://www.andrewhaarsager.com/2007/bloog-the-rss-mod-synth/