People are asked to link to each other’s stories, so some stories form a narrative ‘web’ and others drift off on their own. The machine aids humans to create relationships.
Simple keywords were questioned, perhaps other forms like word pairings.
The machine creates relationships from the human forms.
Martin has a ‘cliche’ application, which he will present soon, that will parse all the stories looking for groups of similar words.
A scenario:
You enter and you see a ‘building’, an “n” dimensional structure. This can unfold depending on how you mouse/draag over.
Click to choose stories to read. The site unfolds like a pop-up book.
Special indications: Paths well traveled? Webs of stories? Recent stories?
You read a story, you see what other stories are linked to it, you can choose them, you can go to the main building, you can select a ‘pairing’.
At any time you can choose to add your story.
You enter the story title.
You type in your story.
You can link your story to others in the vicinity.
Other:
You can comment on any story.
You register by typing in a story.
Once registered, you can link a story to another.
You can choose characters and ‘flesh’ them out?
Stories that are read a lot get more prominent.
There is a coop board with coop members. When a coop board member leaves, they must nominate another in their place.
Stories with lots of swearing go to the blue area.