Possibly the work of Antoinette Lafarge and the Plaintext Players (early
theatrical group working in MOOs) would interest you:
http://yin.arts.uci.edu/~players/index.html and http://www.forger.com/.

-- Paul


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:59 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you have any examples or references for using Moos for text processing?
> That sounds really interesting.
>
> Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dibbell was writing about a MOO, Lambda MOO, somewhat different. I was a
>> wizard on a couple and ran one out of the New School and we had running
>> for the Cybermind conference. Right now I usually have one running in
>> linux for language processing; they're lightweight and can be used for
>> amazing textual manipulation/creation.
>>
>> - ALan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Ana Vald?s wrote:
>>
>> > Does someone remember the MUDS? I was in one of them, invited by Howard
>> > Rheingold, one of the real old timers, founder of the Wall and of a lot of
>> > interesting communities, as Electric Minds.
>> > People interacted at the MUDS in a similar way they do in Facebook or 
>> > Second
>> > Life.
>> > I like Julian Dibbells book about the life inside a MUD :)
>> > Ana
>> >
>> > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Paul Hertz
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >       As someone who was on the Cycling74 list for the whole sweep of
>> >       NN's intervention, what strikes me was how variable the messages
>> >       were. If (her) intervention had been purely an effort to spam,
>> >       NN would have been booted immediately. But NN was inventive,
>> >       frequently a very useful contributor, and even the spammy bits
>> >       were charged with a degree of humor: pickled theory generated by
>> >       a textbot.
>> >
>> >       Of course it got hard to take, and the gradually escalating
>> >       feuding poisoned the list, in the end displacing all the mostly
>> >       welcome or merely irritating posts.
>> >
>> >       -- Paul
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Simon Biggs <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >       Who was voting? There was a period, back when NN was
>> >       active, when the Net was smaller and less commercialised.
>> >       In that context a certain sample of users would have known
>> >       NN and voted for her. Nowadays the net is a different
>> >       universe, dominated by big business and government policy.
>> >       It is only going to be more like that. It is the
>> >       infrastructure of the knowledge economy - and government
>> >       and business have a particular understanding of what the
>> >       term economy means: making money and creating
>> >       jobs/consumers. As I often work at the juncture of
>> >       academic research (into the internet), government policy
>> >       and commercial development it is clear to me that the
>> >       net's future is nothing like its past - and the future is
>> >       now.
>> >
>> >       My students have little or no knowledge of the early net.
>> >       They know it through
>> Facebook, Twitter, blogs, BBC, apps
>> >       and other commercial and/or custom portals. They haven't
>> >       the faintest what The Well is, much less Nettime, Thing or
>> >       7-11. In the case of 7-11 you cannot teach them about it
>> >       as the archives and other traces have been so effectively
>> >       removed. Only individual artist's documentation exists -
>> >       but that isn't the same. 7-11 was a creative
>> >       community/happening and it would be great to present it as
>> >       it was then, in its entirety. I only have my own archive
>> >       (probably 25% of the material) to show them.
>> >
>> >       Many of our researchers also have little knowledge of
>> >       these early examples of net culture. Some do (the artists,
>> >       media nuts, anthropologists, etc) but those working
>> >       between academe and industry (which is most) simply aren't
>> >
>> interested. They see the net as the saviour of TV and
>> >       publishing. They recognise it is fundamentally different -
>> >       but their response is not to consider cultural
>> >       alternatives but to work out new business models (eg:
>> >       social media means social gaming linked to a network TV
>> >       series). I'm sorry it is like that, but it's how it is. At
>> >       this point we probably need an under-net, and it is
>> >       possible that list serves (like usenet, almost a subject
>> >       for media archeology) are that.
>> >
>> >       Ana is right that list serves are dying. The number of
>> >       people on the net has exploded but the numbers using list
>> >       serves have shrunk. Many artistic communities that once
>> >       communicated via list serves have moved to blog, nings or
>> >       Facebook groups. Google+ Circles, despite the failure of
>> >       Google
>> Wave, are the next development. Alan, you make good
>> >       use of that...
>> >
>> >       best
>> >
>> >       Simon
>> >
>> >
>> > On 9 Sep 2011, at 17:48, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > She was actually voted one of the 25 most important women on
>> > the Net. I
>> > > had some dealing with her. And everyone I knew, knew her - she
>> > might have
>> > > been better known in the US; NATO55 was in a lot of places.
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Simon Biggs wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Seems to overstate both the worth of turn of the Century
>> > network culture (we are talking about a few hundred people here
>> > on a list serve or two) and NN. More like a sub-cultural
>> > splinter group... Of all the people on the internet I doubt more
>> > than 0.01% have ever heard of NN. Hardly infamous.
>> > >>
>> > >> (but as NN is eternally prescient I am sure I will now be
>> > burned to a crisp ;)
>> > >>
>> > >> best
>> > >>
>> > >> Simon
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> On 9 Sep 2011, at 14:25, marc garrett wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>> Netochka Nezvanova.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> One of the most famous and infamous EccentricCharacters in
>> > >>> turn?of?the?21st Century Western artistic NetworkCulture,
>> > Netochka
>> > >>> Nezvanova (aka N.N., antiorp, integer, Irena Sabine Czubera)
>> > remains an
>> > >>> enigma to many. Widely believed to be an
>> > IdentityCollective?, Netochka
>> > >>> Nezvanova is a PenName named after the title character in
>> > [an early
>> > >>> unfinished Fyodor Dostoevsky novel] whose name means
>> > "nameless nobody"
>> > >>>
>> in Russian. The identity always presents itself as female,
>> > though it may
>> > >>> not be in reality. Despite the meaning of her moniker, N.N.
>> > has coveted
>> > >>> attention and recognition like few others on the Internet.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/NetochkaNezvanova
>> > >>>
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