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FLAME_SPOTTERS

It sometimes seems to me that 
I should organize a cabal of               But why just
flame-spotters to keep an eye              "science    
out for the Real Thing buried              fiction"?   
in the "science fiction" pile.
   
                
    IN_DEEP                          And how do you
                                     recruit the   
                                     cabal, how do 
                                     you maintain  
                                     the quality of
                                     membership in 
             Is it at all possible   the cabal?    
             to articulate what the
             Real Thing is well    
             enough for a group of 
             people to work        
             together on it?       
                         

   
   Is it really 
   worth doing? 
            
            
            
        As an exercise, sometime                             
        I should compare this                                
        idea to the way KZSU's             RULES
        system works with the A-file.                        
                                                             
        Another point of reference:                          
        user moderation                                      
        schemes like slashdot.                               


There's probably a way for
me to automate a function
like if you like "Mortimer
Snurd you may also like
Maynard Snodgras".

Feed the script three names, in my case perhaps:

   "Bruce Sterling" "Greg Egan" "Ken Mcleod" 

Have it do some fancy Googling, and try to pick out 
additional proper names, preferably authors names.   

Note: as a point of pride, I don't              
use that popular book sale website           They've also been    
that had the nerve to try enforcing          kicking money to  
a particularly idiotic software patent.      the Republicans,  
                                             during the period      
There have of course                         of the Bush Regime      
been many attempts at                        takeover.         
implementing these                                   
kind of features,
though.
                       
I should play with them 
before going off on the                                 
need for a flamespotters                             Nah, not the     
organization (The                                    "Unreality Club"
Unreality Club?).       
                                                         ACTIVE_NAMING 
                                                         


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