I like don’t even get Twitter so I couldn’t really wrap my head around a bot and also I don’t have a spreadsheet program and it all seemed quite challenging so I just made a thing. I wanted to provide … Continue reading →

I made a Roy Batty Twitterbot @RoyBatty_1982 using the Zach Whalen instructions. (And thus whatever algorithms allow “Twitter Apps” to generate and post my tweets automatically; I have not yet decided whether my “vocabulary” and syntactical ingredients counts as parts of … Continue reading →

A composer friend recently wrote a piece of choral music using a procedure that resulted in a procedure for the choir to follow. This list of directions was the “score,” and the result of following the directions was the piece. … Continue reading →

I’ve been rereading Questionable Content lately (don’t judge). If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a webcomic set in Northampton, Massachusetts, chronicling the lives of a bunch of twenty-somethings who have complicated dating lives and way too many opinions about music. When … Continue reading →

I, like others, made use of the easy TwitterBot generator Zach Walen’s instructions, but it took me an exceptionally long time to decide on a subject that seemed pertinent. I knew I wanted to create something that would be revealing about … Continue reading →

I wanted to do a Fashion Bot.  There were some technical errors that prevented me from getting very far into that.  So I went in a different direction. It’s fashion month right now, where the big four cities–New York, London, … Continue reading →

I haven’t implemented a writing algorithm or made a bot yet. In the time when I would’ve normally been thinking about and working on this, I’ve had to respond to a landslide of inquiries about a North Country public memory … Continue reading →

  (0) Above is Plato’s Phaedrus in under 500 words. On MS Word’s account. (1) I’ve been reading a metric tonne of Plato lately. (2) I remember clicking a button in Microsoft Word once that shrunk my friend’s poem into a … Continue reading →

I have to admit that twitterbots don’t make any sense to me– they always read like Frankenstein sentences, or like the word salad of a schizophrenic: close to sentences, but not quite there, gramatically off enough to make me feel … Continue reading →

I made a Complement Bot (@flatterysuitsu), and it works, in the spreadsheet, but I can’t get it to actually send the tweets to the Twitter account.  So, here’s a few screenshots of spreadsheet previews, so you can get the idea: … Continue reading →