From strick@osc.versant.com Sat Jun 25 00:57:36 1994 Received: from osc.versant.com (gwarn.versant.com [192.70.173.14]) fnord by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id AAA04521 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 1994 00:56:11 -0700 Received: by osc.versant.com (TAZmail-0.0) id AA00624; Sat, 25 Jun 94 00:59:25 PDT Received: from versant.com by osc.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02827; Thu, 23 Jun 94 21:14:48 PDT Received: from well.sf.ca.us by versant.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06308; Thu, 23 Jun 94 21:13:39 PDT Received: (from strick@localhost) by well.sf.ca.us (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA12216 for strick; Thu, 23 Jun 1994 21:10:31 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 21:10:31 -0700 From: Henry Strickland Message-Id: <199406240410.VAA12216@well.sf.ca.us> To: strick@well.sf.ca.us Subject: 012READ_ME_NEXT! Status: O AN ADDENDUM: What sjude's posting didn't quite explain is that it included actual writing/role "assignments." In other words, all those "YOU ARE" statements are directly directed at... "YOU!!!!" You can RESPOND to this in a PARTICIPATORY fashion and say, YES, I'D LIKE TO BE..." and give us a short sample of rant, complaint or other text -- just a couple paragraphs, no problem... Respond to rusirius and stjude, both of us @well.sf.ca.us. Then we'll talk about particular assignments to move the plotline along, and about your own input, once you get into the groove of the role and the story. By reading the writing/role assignments posted here and by reading the plot, available in the reference library on the WELL (just gopher it) you'll have all the info that you need to participate. Many of these roles require only one piece of writing, some of them fewer than 500 words. So COME ON, YOU LAZY PROPELLER HEADS... this is an opportunity to exercise your wit and your sense of the ridiculous.. in a very subversive context... in broad strokes or with great subtlety... and to put yourself or your favorite real or imaginary group or project into the near future history of the world... So here's a repetition of some of Jude's posting with some additions: WRITING/ROLE ASSIGNMENTS TECHNO REVOLUTIONISTS You are a born anarchist hacker rhetorician w/ enough techno knowledge to moneky wrench a bit in the digital realm. You are a technically proficient cypherpunk with an earnest yet flashy writing style You are a generalist hacker/cracker who can write technical material and engage in colorful email exchanges. You are a hacker genius who can figure out ways to do things that simply can't be dome, and can talk about it in a reasonably accessible way. Or maybe you're the near-cartoon brilliant NERD, lving the Vampire shift on caffeine and canned corn. With an entirely fictoidal posse of nastyass teeners with whom you concoct pranks. You're a black post-riot grrrl, Sub Rosa, with the most popular online pirate multimedia show in the world. You're a vile revolutionary psycho into media piracy and advocating direct technological attacks on the government. THE "MAN" You are a puritanical nut who likes to write personal threat notes You write official statements for the forces of purity and repression You're Vice President Tipper Gore on a rampage. JOURNALISTS You are good at compiling data on a subject and making it readable. You are a mainstream journalist or a techno-newsletter writer or both. (with Extropian tendencies_ (into media piracy) You are a detail-oriented hard-tech journalist with wit and style You are a detail-oriented science writer specializing in biotech, with wit and style You're a business journalist You're a serious mainstream journalist witha left-liberal agenda monitoring social and cultureal trends You write for TV Guide You're a conservative columnist You're a mainstream "liberal" columnist fed up with total media violence and anarchy You're a Goddess-pagan oriented writer ready to shill for a religion based on bodily fluids You're a Gonzo "rock" culture journalist of the wickedest sort. You are a music/art writer/critic with a good sense of the ludicrous TECHNICAL You're a how-to, hands-on phreaker, intruder or media pirate and you draw DIY circuit diagrams, maps and step-by-step instructions. You are a technician who can write instruction books, draw diagrams and the like and make it entertaining. You're into "industrial" performance art, multimedia and special effects... Keep in mind that boring-sounding detail-oriented pieces pay three times as much as the other ones, if that's a factor for you. also, there's tremendous flexibility in all of this for people to mutate their roles, and add new ones. Our goal is to write 1994-1997 in July and 1998-2001 in August and then add change and improve... R U Sirius June 22, 1994