Xanadu Responds! I got back from a Diwali party, scared to open my mail, and I didn't. I went to sleep and then I woke up a few hours later, scared to open my mail. So, I made tea. Then I checked my mail.

I had a mail from Professor Ted Nelson. If you aren't aware of who he is, perhaps it is time. Anyway, he wrote:

Hi Rohit. Nice to hear from you again (that was you that wrote me
a couple of years ago, wasn't it)? I'm pleased that Larry Lessig steered you toward me. Congratulations on your journey toward the truth !-)

I've looked at your blog-noveland found the permission at the bottom.*§
It's not exactly transcopyright, since
- it relies on personal contact
- it's limited in quantity

The systems I'm working on (Transcopyright and Transliterature)
will I hope make these things a little simpler. Please watch my pages, which I hope will be better very soon.

I hadn't even dreamed that he would reply. Funnily enough, I don't remember writing to him a couple of years ago, and then again, I might have. I have written letters to so many people I admire, never expecting that they'd reply back. Only, secretly hoping...

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  Cloak Room - The Alternative Reality Game Ladies & Gentlemen,

India's first SMS Novel is now also a game!

"This is the story of Rita, who carries a vital piece of information that will change the future of India. It is written by RoGue, but controlled by you. The author wants her do die in the end, can you save her?

After each chapter, you suggest an alternate course for the story, via comments, and fight the author!

*Every response counts...but anonymous comments may be ignored*  ¶ 11:57:00 PM 0 comments

  Spam Poetry IX - "Forms" Don't wait any longer.
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citizen muttered venomously
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This is to inform you
well! Namely, within
there appeared by the
Dysmas, on the second

Re: the things we say
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the yarn Varenukha was

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where to go, what
that his face became
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and that over the
Re: and become parables themselves,
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  Arrival Of The Mobs Start watching. The smart mob has arrived.

  ¶ 9:46:00 PM 1 comments

  Money#2 We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
– Marshall McLuhan

It's insane, how much power a penniless man has.

RoGue has started writing India's first SMS-friendly novel, Cloak Room, and he needed a promo deal with this company. Yesterday he went to meet the CEO, a complete stranger, and to strike a business deal with him.

RoGue told him why and how this was going to change the nature of media in this country, put the publishing in the hands of the people. RoGue's sincerity somehow worked, he told him he used to be a spammer who was now being screwed by big networks. They wanted to control spam, in the sense that, they wanted to control the money that is to be made by spamming.

By the end of the afternoon, the guy just gave us what we wanted - for FREE.

  ¶ 12:28:00 AM 1 comments