Archive for June, 2005
Chatbot Profiles
0 Comments Published by Mark Marino June 19th, 2005 in Uncategorized, Poetics, bots.WRT offers feedback for botmasters.
ELO launches redesigned site and moves to IOWA
Gradation of Failure is a discussion of large and small failures in IF that compliments my recent series on frustration in IF, and I highly recommend reading both it and the comments thread.
To summarize: failure can be swift if a mistake is made (large gradation) or gradual with an accumulation of mistakes (small gradation). IF […]
Coover and the Purloined Tarts
5 Comments Published by Mark Marino June 16th, 2005 in Uncategorized, hyperfic, Poetics, Off Topic, games.Coover’s card-story “Heart Suit” intervenes in narratology-ludology debate.
I know we all receive spam, and that the chunks of text are not perhaps great examples of Text Art, but gee I find some of them interesting. A paragraph of text is often sent, with no coherence, to fool the spam filters that sense is present by the occurance of a certain amount […]