Bouncing between a Jabber interface to a Lisp REPL and Emacs, Mimír pinged me with a Slashdot item about Bruce Perens' new scheme that deserved a comment. I wasn't using emacs-jabber as the client I was testing the REPL with, but that's where I got the news. It may have been the black screen begging for text that gave me the urge to start pounding in a comment right there in Mimír's buffer.
Yes, I nearly started pounding in a comment right there. It would be extremely nice if I could have punched it in right there. It would be even cooler if I could watch a whole conversation on that news item develop right in front of me in real-time!
The one problem that I see with is that it wouldn't be a nice and well thought out conversation. It would be a typical chat related to the post devolved into small chat.
I really do like the possibility though: instant news + instant conversation.
Related to the /. post that sparked this: I have some parked domains. If anyone wants to one up Bruce Perens or advertise on my domains, I would be up to discuss ways of putting cash into the pockets of actual OSS developers and not some politicians.
