Story-Lab -- Web Ideas
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Story-LAB -- Web Ideas

On this page:  {Wish List] (spewed out ideas)
               {Group Brain-Storming Sessions}
               {Technologies}
               {Experiences (so far)} 
                   (note this section also introduces a lot of
                    terminology as well, might want to start here)

Next: Wish List.

  

Wish List

First-off there should be the maximum freedom and yet the
maximum safety -- this is from the pov of artistic creativity.

Sev views present themselves:  single-person projects, multiple
person projects, critiques, spin-offs, commentaries, etc. Add
to this the ability to create web-site-lets (mini-web worlds 
attached to the main web-space). 

In addition, there should be pubs and cafès as well were people
can gather. In addition, lecture rooms, galleries, performance
spaces, theatre, music, dance halls, etc.


Under-lieing this would be the wiki concept of total involvement
possiblities. That is, anyone can make *any* modifications at
any time. 

Thus, for a team to be working on a project (which might be 
kept:


 *private* - by invitation only, team-only, etc. NOT visible
             note as an option, the team librarian/publicist
  could post "abstracts", "trailers", "teasers", etc.

 *rfc* -- request for comment. Published, but may not be copied,
          comments can be added, etc.

 *published* - a snap-shot is taken and presented for 
               viewing/commentary, can be copied (to a new
  area, thus spawning spin-offs, extracts, etc.

 *released* -- versioned, released, copy-righted, or what-ever that
               means. Possibly as "final edition".

An important aspect of these communities is the AHEM action. If
a person publishes an idea as their own and "forgets" to reference
the original work, they can be subjected to "ahemming" (minor
flaming). If the person continues to do this, they can be
*warned* eventually, they may be even *bannished*; this usually
only needs to be done to trolls and bullahs.

The Tools Bin

In addition to the stuff (text/sound/vid/games/etc), there 
would be a up-/down-load area for TOOLS. Of course, it would
be nice if most of these were OPEN SOURCE; if not, then the
pay-as-you-use, etc thingies have to be addressed (by others,
natch i haven't the time for materialistic money grubbers).

I'll be back later, have to go work on a public-domain (OPEN SOURCE)
text processor in ansi c, later froods. -- Frank.  2005.09.02-05:05pm CaDST.

Script libraries


Brain-storming Sessions

Jim Innocent:

Inviting participation; on-line pipe-line story.

on-line forum (round-robin story building/modification)

generative story generator


David

virtual game -- the room with the red table
you can decorate the space -- other elemetns can be 
connected with the story.

conversation experience -- eg, dinner with andre

Jerry
shiner bock, double strength 
blog -- 

Miguel -- image, visuals, music hyper-text links to music, etc.

non-linear manner -- cross linked.

LOOK UP:  Hyper media

Nathan -- sequential art (comics), movies, oral,
upload different stories and stuff. comment and 
create a dialog that why.

arron
Living stories.
node (starts off) wiki anyone can modify/clone/extend

authorship but not ownership

sandbox (trial area)

Lee -- footprints? 
dancing (videos, or dance steps)

written story, video of a person telling the story (perf)

stickmen -- 

and the web site IS the story -- 

Mary-ellen - the story site is evolving
expression:  non-linear, fragment a conglomerate
of stories being generated.  composed of the pieces
of the many.  Skim the site (swimming pool cleaner)

delivery of the story is then choice of authoring

thomas: vocabulary -- we've only re-arranged things
        the web site becomes a sentient being.

attractors -- and the story will keep evolving.



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Technologies


This section discusses current and future technologies from
the POV of what we might/can/would want/need/see from the
web.


Next: Experiences (so far).

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Experiences (so far)

Anyway, just a few quick notes about "life on-line".

At this point (2005.09.02), I have been *actively* involved 
on-line with the HitchHiker's Guide to The Galaxy fan-site 
(www.DouglasAdams.com, now defunct, moved (more-or-less) to 

    http://www.douglasadams.se/forum

These are a few of my experiences (albeit, i would be the
first (or certainly among the first ten) to admit that my
experiences are not very extensive.

e-friends --The concept of e-friends develops quite naturally
            as you meet various people. For the most part,
people are pretty much as they are "in real life" (IRL). Of
course, i think that each of us spins a bit of a yarn about
ourselves (disclosing less than we might in TRW (the real world).

Naturally, though, as each person finds out more about each
other, bonds develop that in some ways are stronger than those
of people around us. After all, we tend to talk about much
more personal problems and such to these "perfect strangers"
than we do to people that we work with. Thus, if for example
"Eric the Red" was in town and needed a place to stay, i 
would have no problem with putting him up for as long as
he needed. That's how strong the e-friend bond is.

Of course, this depends upon the level of integrity of the
group; ie, classic "clique" concept.

e-trolls -- Trolls (or various names, my fav being bullah
            beasts) are people who get off (power trip) on
playing mind games, swearing at, or otherwise abusing, 
dissing, etc people on line. Usually the rest of the community
will come to the defence of any of the "usual gang" when 
they are attacked by a bullah beastie. This probably 
excites the troll even more, since they thrive on attention,
best if they can you or someone else to swear back at them
-- ie, winning by getting you to play on *their* terms.
Some of them get pretty nasty. The best thing is to just
totally ignore them. 

lurkers -- People who monitor the site either by not logging
           in with a user-name, or log on using fairly bogus
identification info. There are lurkers good and bad, often
trolls (bullahs) will lurk and then log on when they feel
they can do some damage.

web-masters -- The web master is ostensibly the person (or
               persons) who put the site "up" in the first
place. Again, the integrity of the web-master must be of
the highest order to build an on-line community where the
participants feel comfortable. In addition, the web-master
can assign certain people to help monitor activity as well.
These are again e-friends of the web-master and known 
"good guys".



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