I would like to discribe the phenomenon of global discourse in first English then UML - a metalanguage task. The functionality of the Squeak interface would be to browse existing discourse; if it doesn't exist you create and maintain it as a discourse group (listserv, moo, squeak projects, swiki). If you don't maintain it, it gets garbage collected. The remaining squeak tasks therefore are to build a Moo in Squeak (starting with a telnet server), and a list server. Most importantly, the under-structure of all communication modules should reflect a connected architecture of discourse - undesigned, emergent. Of course there should be a way to visualize the structure (map) on demand. Maybe a real-time, continually morphing multidimensional scaling mapper - RTCMMSM for the acronym obsessed crowd :). I guess there is no way around it; we would have to base this around a discourse server also. Kenneth Fields Ph.D. Media Arts and Technology Institute of Human Computer Interaction and Media Integration Department of Computer Science Tsinghua University Beijing, China 100084 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.create.ucsb.edu/ken (86 10) 8316 1363
