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Using Web 2.0 for Golden Apple Seed Missions
originally from http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=14841.msg469601#msg469601
So, the internet has mutated Operation Mindfuck.
Classic things that needed player/master relationships for organisation are not always necessary anymore. The classic player/master relationship has always been, for a large part, a boring job of logistics. This is the robot future, so let the machines take care of it.
In web2.0, you can simply let something loose, inform a shitload of people via whatever channel and a whole army of bots, spiders, agents, pipes and feeds will take care of the logistics for you.
Allow me to demonstrate
I registered an account at http://del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site:
http://del.icio.us/triplezero (some evil bastard already stole "000")
On this account, I bookmarked the URL to Cram's "To Kill A Religion/Joke" manifesto. Then I tagged it with "gasm" (and "eris", "discord", "discordia", and such so it might get some exposure). I also tagged it with "omgasm" which is the general Operation Mindfuck GASM we're using to get the project itself off the ground. Now check this out:
Showing all URLs tagged with "gasm". There's some other links below it about the GNU Assembler, but nobody cares about that and if this thing takes off we'll swamp them anyway. And, del.icio.us being a social networking site, also allows you to create a "network" of users (other discordians/GASManiacs) so you can keep track of what they do and/or tag.
But there is more. you wanna keep track of what's going on in the GASMsphere, right? So subscribe to its RSS feed:
http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/gasm
There's even more features on del.icio.us, and with some creativity and a slight hack of code here and there (del.icio.us was one of the first web2.0 apps, and has since then kinda turned into the ducttape of the web2.0 mash).
next!
So, Cram's cabal wants fake moustaches everywhere?
First, Cram writes up a nice recruiting article, telling people to put moustaches everywhere and photograph the evidence. Maybe he puts it on the wiki here, maybe write it on his blog, post on a forum, news site, or in the very simplest case, just bang out some text at http://www.shorttext.com .
He also instructs people to place the photos on flickr.com and tag them with 'moustachegasm'.
Cram then bookmarks it on del.icio.us, tags it with "gasm" and "moustachegasm" so everybody subscribing to the "gasm" feed on del.icio.us gets the message (and then proceeds to spam the URL all over the place, anywhere, for more extra exposure is always good).
This way, Cram's cabal can follow the progress of their moustachegasm nicely simply by keeping track of this page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/moustachegasm/ (which, of course, has an RSS feed too)
It might be easier to use photobucket instead of flickr, as everybody here already uses and knows photobucket. It also has a search page with an RSS feed: http://photobucket.com/images/moustachegasm/ , it seems like you gotta set your album to public before images appear in the search page though.
Easy as that.
(Someone in) Cram's cabal also subscribed to the "moustachegasm" feed on del.icio.us, so if anybody wants to communicate, or draw the moustachegasm-crowd's attention to anything, they just post a bookmark to del.icio.us tagged with "moustachegasm". Or, if they don't want to use flickr, they can post imageshack or photobucket links to del.icio.us tagged with "moustachegasm". Or if some cabal on a forum far far away decides to do a whole lot of moustacheing and talk about it on their forum--they post a link.
A few more things
There are lots and lots of little web2.0 social networking services and tools out there and with a littlebit of creativity, the possibilities are endless.
YouGASM is an example.
A few more websites that might prove useful:
http://calendar.google.com - google calendar. is an online calendar application, a bit reminiscent of microsoft Outlook. the cool thing is that it is coupled to a gmail account, and that you can allow other gmail accounts to view and even edit your calendar. (one of my friends uses it and tells people "if you wanna meet up for coffee, i added you to my calendar, check when i'm free and reserve a spot" ) anyway, for your purposes it might be useful to set up a shared calendar describing a roadmap of certain longterm gasms. and a public calendar can of course be read through an RSS feed, if you wish.
http://docs.google.com - google docs. three in one: an online word processor (compatible with Word), online spreadsheet (compatible with Excel) and online presentation (compatible with PowerPoint) applications. similar to calendar you can share everything with selected users, for great collaborative projects. especially powerful if you know to work some Excel magic (formulas, procedures, etc).
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes - yahoo pipes. "Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web." this is the superglue of the internet. a bit advanced, but you can convert everything and anything to a feed, loop it through a bunch of filters, post it to a blog, del.icio.us account, search the web, you name it. it's like Lego for the web. and you don't need to know how to program.
http://twitter.com/ - more social networking/web2.0 stuff. this one allows people to send SMS-like messages to eachother through a social network. complete with feeds, tagging, social network, integration etc.
(and I'm just looking around .. this stuff is sweeeeeet http://ponderer.org/del.icio.us hehe. i'm using del.icio.us for a week or two now, imported all my bookmarks from Opera (it's easy, also for IE and FF), they're not shared, but at least i can easily access them from anywhere now)
The GASM Feed
The GASM Feed is currently located at http://elvicities.com/~ananames/gasmfeed.html, and is designed to be a tool to keep track of what is going on in the GASM-o-sphere.
What does it do and how do I use it?
It grabs all links on http://del.icio.us tagged with both gasm and somethinggasm and sorts them into categories. For every category, it also checks if there exist any photos on http://flickr.com tagged with somethinggasm and displays those as well.
So all you have to do is register yourself a del.icio.us account and a flickr account and start tagging!
How does it work, sort of?
(Warning: technobabble ahead)
It uses Yahoo!Pipes to grab the feed for links tagged gasm off of del.icio.us, the pipe (currently called "GASM Pipe 2") processes this feed, filtering out any links that are not also tagged with a somethinggasm (because we're not interested in the "GNU Assembler"), splits the feed, requests flickr photos for all somethinggasm tags, merges the feeds together and outputs.
The HTML file then issues a JSON request to Yahoo!Pipes, receiving the processed feed from the pipe as a Javascript object and turns this object into pretty HTML elements so that everybody can read them, or view the pictures.
Since in the end, it's just a single file of HTML (with a littlebit of javascript in it), it can be saved and re-uploaded anywhere.
