Scenario: "Glass Meme Game"

 

Here's a demonstration of how an dialogue can be configured to run what's called a Glass Meme Game. Its inspiration comes from the similarly-name fictional game in Hermann Hesse'sNobel Prize-winning novel.  While only the settings are listed, readers should be able to imagine how it might play out...

 

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1. Objective:  Using the following image as the focus of the exchange, determine the most balanced set of interrelationships between artifacts across various disciplines for the purpose of demonstrating the universal comprehension of humanity.  Each directive submitted by a particular participant can inhabit diverse areas of knowledge (e.g. mathematical equation, painting, poetry, photograph, historical work, song, etc.) or all the same.  During the evaluation phase, participants must create "metalogues" that express the relationship between that directive and the subject of the exchange (in this case, the image of Pablo Picasso's Guernica).  The distribution of Ions by participants should be based on the relative novelty or coherency of the directive's expression.  Since the completion term of the exchange is continuous (never-ending), participants may join or fall out of the exchange at the end of an evaluation phase.

 

2. Initiator Identity:  mykljonzun
3. Participation:  Open
4. Communication Ethics Policy:  ideologi incorporated CEP (Voluntary Observation)
5. Auto-Translation:  Yes
6. Commission Structure:  Free 
7. Evaluation Share:  50%
8. Maximum Number of Participants:  Unlimited
9. Maximum Number of Insights Allowed per Participant:  10
10. Format Requirements:  Open (Text file; Maximum 20K)
11. Evaluation Date:  12:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada), 4 June 2009
12. Participant Identity:  Anonymous
13. Participation Requirements:  Submission & Exchanges (All Phases)
14. Initiator Participation:  Yes
15. Creative License:  Creative Commons Deed (Attribution 2.5)
16. Valuation Method:  Ions (250)
17. Insights Evaluated Per Phase:  10
18. Completion Term:  Continuous
19. Time per Exchange:  5 Days
20. Upgrades Between Exchanges:  Yes (2 Days)
21. Publication of Insights:  Yes
22. Publication of Outcomes:  Yes
23. Escrow Period (Days):  None

As you can see, there is far more to ideologi than harnessing ego to produce intellectual property or generating political consensus -- its potential is only limited by the inventiveness of the initiator and interests of willing participants (see the post entitled "Initiating an Exchange (of Ideas) with ideologi")...