Nice Things About Noets

One of the nice things about noets, other than the fact that it lets two people post at the same time such as me and crschmidt are doing now, is that it also seems to make people post a lot more regularly. I suppose that has something to do with the fact that IRC is a very accessible mechanism: there's no tyrrany of the blank page here because you're constantly in conversational mode. What Noets does is make you wrap some of your conversationlets (odd, that's twice I've used that word today) in little packages that you then export to the rest of the world...

But it takes some getting used to, I think. For a start, you have to make sure that your typing is roughtly accurate because you can't go back in there and fiddle around with it. In version one of noets, I did actually edit a lot of the entries on the server, and I think I may have even got around to implementing a substitution syntax, or at least thinking about it. You also have to be careful that you don't go over the maximum allowed line length on IRC, otherwise the end of your lines will be chopped off. Ah, crschmidt informs me that I did indeed implement it. That was nice of me!

Anyway, just another metapost. I'm going to Googlecount conversationlet and noets now. conversationlet: 7; conversationlets: 5; noets: 13,800. So there you go.