April
28th
(Monday)
People are complaining that their posts aren’t appearing after the sentence they replied to. The only fix I can think of is putting a time-out on replies.
April
17th
(Thursday)
Link.
The major infrastructure is in place: You text penultimater to 41411, are automatically subscribed and receive the last written sentence with instructions to reply with keyword penultimater (required, argh!) and your sentence to appear next in the story. Next steps:
- How to track responses to corresponding last sentence? (If more than one user texts in and receives the same last sentence, which appears next? What happens to the additional entries?
- Interface design. We’re going to do a few versions and see which reads better:
- script: each submission reads as a piece of dialogue. submissions color-coded, possibly avatars.
- story: text formatted as single story.
- editable story: viewers can re-order the story using this.
April
2nd
(Wednesday)
So, in thinking about this little rant below a bit more, I want to create some sort of txtmarks app that you can text ingredients to and get a quick definition. The advantage to this over just searching the words in your mobile browser would be having a consistent source and formatting.
corrine:
I was so excited to find these sugar-free lemon oatmeal cookies made by Jessie’s. I’ve got a terrible sweet tooth and it’s starting to really show with all my thesis stress eating so I’ve put the kibosh on sweets for a bit. I read the ingredients and there was only one I didn’t recognize - malitol. I looked it up and found this. Maybe I’ll get afflicted with gastric distress each time I eat one and it will be some sort of Pavlovian conditioning against cookies but maybe instead of labeling items sugar-free they should have a “sugar substitute” label.
