blathersuggestions eric the ability to put in line breaks in word entries would be cool. 980907 ... eric if we had a form that would take a URL for an image or audio file, it would be easy enough to load a word page with an image and/or audio/midi file. then we could add image or music interpretations of words. 980907 ... eric several database-type ideas: a *current* option that would display blather entries of the current time period (week/month) only. a *new* option that would only display entries newer than x days or 24 hrs. a *people* option that would specify display of entries only by certain person(s). also it would be cool if you could select two/more people and get a list of all (or date range specified) entries containing submissions by only the selected people. 980907 ... eric a simple date selection idea: select a date range for entry display; it could be used in conjunction with other options. essentially you would create a filter from a number of query options. to summarize: you could select a person or specific people; a specified date range or date preset--random/current/all; multimedia yes/no options--images/video clips/audio with specific image/audio/video artist combinations. 980907 ... eric wouldn't blather be a cool personal word journal/diary thing? you could have it offer a random word everyday and make an entry on the word, but the word would just be the starting point for a journal entry. it would be cool as a personal, stand-alone app or as a big group journal with the search filters. if there was something like this, i'd like to have an automatic *moonstamp* that would stamp each entry with the current lunar phase so that you could search entries based on the phase of the moon. 980907 ... charley It would be nice to see reverse associations of words.. What words are linked into the current word.. It would be nice to see word association mapping with references to people that blathed.. 980907 ... eric what about a *party blather*, where you have a *blather station* at a party and people make entries throughout the party. later you could read through the entries (especially cool for parties that become alternate reality events). what if you could specify a range of keywords for each entry instead of just one word, then later query against a list of keywords, and still hyper-link keywords appearing in the entries. 980907 ... eric it would be cool to have a list of *who's online* even if there were no direct interaction. 980907 ... Jake Sage, don't play with your schootchy-sniffer. 980923 ... drew a dictionary, perhaps in alphabetical order, but maybe in chronological order of appearance. 980925 ... emma yeah, a blather-like program you'd have on your computer would rock. Sage and Dallas could make a lot of money off this thing. 980926 ... jack yes, this would definitely make a great party game. and i don't even like parties. i'd probably just play this thing all night, and avoid everyone. heh. 980929 ... dallas money? Did somebody say money? I want sex! 980930 ... dallas isn't there already a from command associate with each word that shows you what words are linked to that word? (in answer to Charley) Is that not what you wanted? 980930 ... dallas If it were setup in a party, I think it should have several places to play it so multiple people could be adding words at once. That's exciting. 980930 ... michael I think charley might have suggested it before it was a feature. (notice how i can't really be wrong about this, grin) 981001 ... ang i like the idea of the party version of blather. it gives those of use out of touch with reality a place to go for fun. i'd definately do it. 981001 ... emma Money and sex! 981003 ... caty blather spirituality! 981005 ... josh Notice how if you backtrack to blather/b/, you get a directory listing? Isn't that like, bad? 981013 ... josh Oh and maybe newer entries to each word she be listed at the top, instead of at the bottom. 981013 ... josh God I'm critical. How about this? When you go to a word page, and you click on a name, you get all the words they did, right? But when you click a word, you get that word page, but you're at the top. Why not an anchor directly to that person's entry on that page? If you wanted to just see that person's stuff. But then again, maybe all this direct-access searching stuff is a bad idea. Part of the charm is the randomness with which the user navigates. 981013 ... josh And maybe it would be nice if the name wasn't like the same type as the blather only one size smaller. It kinda runs together. 981013 ... josh Okay, I'll shut up now. 981013 ... emma back when this was at dreamhost.com/~sage/blather/, you could check a directory listing and it would give you a forbidden notice. So I never tried it again. But I don't think there's anything bad about a list of words. 981026 ... thenestor I have to agree with Mr. Endquote (I think it's that Josh... yeah, no one else talks that much...) that the names on the left tend to run into the text on the right. When I first saw blather, I didn't realize those were names. Possibly that's because the first person whose blather I saw was named "i". And as long as I'm here, in the only seemingly logical entry in the database, I'd like to mention that Emma is a particularly entertaining blatherer. You go girl. Maybe the people who write the most intriguing blatherings (am I using this word at all correctly? ...I have no idea how to correctly conjugate it) should get an award. Like a car. Or a pencil. Or a picture of a pencil. Or maybe a candy bar. Or a picture of David Hasselhoff. I don't know. Whatever. 981121 ... k do you have to have special - privelages - or something - to start a new word? help... :) 981122 ... emma um, no, of course not. just go to /cgi-bin/sage/blather.pl?addform and type away. man, it would suck if one couldn't make up words. 981123 ... josh Man, does this place need a redesign, or what? :) 990203 ... Emily Although a monkey could probably go to the directory and find a word that they were looking for, I still think that it would be neat to have a search function so that people could see if certain people have blathered, or if certain words have been added yet or something.. searchable by people or word. Dunno.. just a thought. 990204 ... Rainer Krauss gawd ... i just read trough all the suggestions and now I forgot what I wanted to say. 990208 ... Rainer Krauss okay ... I once typed my email address wrong. Now it appears that way on the 'who'-list. Any chance to correct it? Hello? 990208 ... Rainer Krauss btw ... what is love? 990208 ... Rainer Krauss I just added rainbow. I knmow for sure it's mentioned on perfect, but the word rainbow on the page for perfect didn't change into a link....do I have to wait or to reload or....hrm, I just tried to reload, but it didn't change...*reload*..*reloadreloadreload*...hrm....did I made a typo? Is something wrong with the proxy hosts? Am I stupid? Who shot Elmar Fudd? Can you heal me? Do I ask too much? 990217 ... j Can we have a Dave Matthews Band word? Please? 990217 ... coldtea You should let anyone start a new word. (I promise I wouldn't do Dave Matthews.) 990221 ... h8r why are you all having problems with new words? just erase out the word in the field and type in your new one. whenever i feel like blathering that's what i do. and that's the reason why i started the word bitch! because it needed accurate definiton. anyway. i don't suggest a new word, but possibly, could we do something about misspelled new words? like a "Are you sure?" challenge. i know how to do it with cfml but this cgi stuff is all new to me... 991020 ... me? i love this thing 991111 ... valis whatever you do, keep it simple, guys. please. most of the fun lies in blowing thru here at random, so i could give a moose's cock about directories. lovin' it. 991209 ... Rhianna after a hard night of doritosnlemonade, one could surely appreciate an "editing' feature... 000711 ... MollyGoLightly where are the dancing girls? and the vodka tonics? and the silly sylphs who pat us on the back when we have blathered like a champ? 000729 ... Jack BEHIND YOUTHEY"RE BEHIND YOU!!!! (ithe dancing girls) If you looked around say "ha ha Jack You're so funny" out loud!! 001126 ... roz tonk "ha ha jack, you're so funny!", but then again, im dappy, i think u know that already, you saw me drunk outside the elly & castle the other night and im so easily caught out by stupid things like that. WHERE ARE THE DANCING BLOKES HEY HEY?! 001126 ... splinken lighten up, fer chrissakes! 001126 ... shiva i am in favor of directories or searches. 010406 ... ClairE A better font. Put a "recent" link along with "who" at the bottom of blathe forms--"recent" tends to load more quickly and also lets you see when someone's added again. 011202 ... ever welcoming they should start a blather_welcome_wagon, so everyone (upon signing up (you _did_ all sign up, right?)) would get a fruit basket complete with durian, kiwi, persimmon, a hand gun, a case of microbrews, a pack of rubs, and a tube of anti-fungal ointment. "wiggity word my niggaz" could be printed on the welcome wagon team's t-shirts, cuz then people would feel more welcome, dui_bu_dui? 011203 ... nocturnal you didn't get that when you signed up? I did. I get it every time I use a new name. 011203 ... paste! when i signed up i only got the pack of rubs, and frankly, that's all i needed. 011203 ... god i got a roller skate 011204 ... DannyH I got a hovercraft_full_of_eels 011206 ... DannyH And a bowl of cereal in the post. And some string. 011206 ... User24 the ability to 'lock' your blather name, (so people can't fake your posts and make you look more of a dick than than make yourself look. 011213 ... User24 oh, and ah. forgot it. damn............ doobeedoo. ah yes, here it is. the ability to got notified (by email?) when someone posts to a blathe you have posted to. or something. 011213 ... ever dumbening lose the recent list completely, to eliminate any linearity whatsoever. 'twould put an end to a great deal of well, you know. 011213 ... pontifier spell checker please 011216 ... blather spell check blather_spell_check I tried. I am the most hated blatherer as a result. 011217 ... Toxic_Kisses Not True!! read spellchecker 011217 ... ClairE If, when you were blather_stalking, you were able to jump to a specific person's entry on that blathe, it would make life so much easier. Especially when you are looking through a blathe as huge as "blather". 020107 ... skitzerman hello what is up i am a newbie what the hell is this i am interested let me in !!! hello??? 020201 ... User24 what is this? my good man, that's what we're all tring to find out? On day, we were busy making loads of money for our bosses, then we clicked on a link by accident and were drawn in to a world of blue. or something. 020205 ... User24 you might want to start at the blathermaze_entrance 020306 ... User24 The ability to preview blathe would be cool. 020307 ... Toxic_Kisses Clare, when your blather stalking and your looking for a spacific person under one of their blathers Press the Ctrl button and than the F button Their should now be a find box on the page, type in your name az an example and than press the return/enter key, now it should show you one of the places you blathed on this page, continue to press return/enter and it will show you the other places you've blathed az well ^.^ I hope that helps a lil w/ your blather stalking 020307 ... TK Make the -fROm- buttion @ the bottom right of the page work again! 020307 ... Effingham Fish If you could just add a blathe from the entrance page, that'd be nice. 020513 ... Daria How about you make it so that we can pictures on, i've got some funny ones. 020513 ... "Ancient Pagan" I have a blather suggestion: have a blatheroom on Adolf_Hitler: wouldn't that be juicy! Also, how about other blatherooms on blatherfolks besides just Silentbob (great guy apparently!). How about one on Antisocial_Butterfly, god, Teenage_Jesus, ToxicKisses, Ancient_Pagan or the other Blather Citizenry. By the way, who are the gods of Blather? Who runs the absorbative void of blue: aliens, the government, Elvis?--Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! :-@ 020513 ... niska we're such typical humans, no? we burn forests to make room for cows, so we can eat at fast-food restuarants because we're too fat & lazy to get off our asses to cook a damn healthy meal once in a while. and if there's an animal in the back yard, that we haven't domesticated, we kill it. this space is what it is. adapting it to our needs would lead us to fail as humans - again. i like blather the way it is. though some italics would be nice, i can get by... 030722 ... Strideo there is a search function. . . on google! do it like this- type:"search site:www.blather.newdream.net" then the word or words you are searching for after. like this for example "search site:www.blather.newdream.net monkeys" google is your freind! ... 030821 ... karl the weed ues, i agree wholeheatedly with niska 030821 ... karl the weed yes, i agree wholeheatedly with niska 030821 ... eyedream I like it just the way it is UNCOMPLICATED AND PURE takes advantage of the smaller fontsize 030822 ... Dafremen The pages only appear on google if they were up on the main page long enough to get picked up by the spider bots. I think a search feature would be very nice, but would probably get used so damned much that it would end up bogging down the server. 030822 ... User24 I wish there was a "don't go" button, that took you to a blathe that didn't exist yet, and said, 'hey, write something brand new about this word, if you will' 031011 ... u24 would it be cool if every blathe title was checked against a dictionary, and then blather wouldn't let you create that blathe if it wasn't a dictionary word? of course, it'd have to be multilingual, but the (questionable) benefit would be that there'd be no underscore_connected_phrase(s). it'd certainly be different. and I think a little more like how blather was supposed to be (supposed, as in, closer to the original concept by dallas/sage) 031117 ... somebody what_is_blather_supposed_to_be ? 031117 ... Thpppt Accck hmmm....the "don't go" feature might be nice, but i already notice unused words and phrases during blathes. oh and i most vehemental disagree with the limitations you suggest (no blathes with underscored attachments....F**K that (the well thought out arguement and all)....and limiting this blue dream to only words in the dictionary....another F**K that, any constraints imposed upon this nonsensical experiment, will taint the end results (assuming they want some, maybe they have a twenty year or even 10 year plan/cutoff date, then a ten year period of studying all of our individual data and group data....blah....blah....blah), and limit free expression. ...easy boy....easy....deep breaths...inhale the good...exhale the bad...... aaawww.....zenness... F**K that. 031117 ... Thppptt Accck relentless outer critic... yeah...yeah...spelling and grammar mistakes gallor blah...blah... 031117 ... u24 :-P gallore 041123 ... teh dot galore? 050713 ... u24 oh, shit! thanks dot. lol. 071218 ... u24 I hate noticing typos in blathes. It would be good if one could edit ones blathes within 1 minute of posting. 080225 ... margaux or maybe temporarily "deactivate" them. but that would require a login. phoeey. 080226 ... hsg a sister_site with.... pictures_bunches_of_pictures strewn_about in a twisty_tangly_web_of_pontification (r) you could click ...sure on a picture bringing view to a page of pictures all collaged about the original. it's_about_time we geTOURight minds involved. 090606 ... oren I_really_like this idea. 090607 ... meta meta 100105 what's it to you? who go blather from