The CrossMedia Ecologist is sparking up this week.  Their nonsense is uncategorizable.  There is no throughline, no data, no way of modelling their behaviour, no sense in what they say.  It is a jumbled up collection of thoughts and scattered memes scrambling for darwinian survival.  While they may share some goals with us, their means – if they even have means – are so disjointed that they may as well appear to be nothing at all.  They encourage play, but it is broken and unstructured.  They encourage exploration, but it is goal-less and without a framework.  They encourage experimentation, but with their noise they actively undermine our own experiments.

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The program that we set up and attempted to run at this late stage in the game looks certain to collapse.  The amount of noise is overwhelming.  We are unsure if the structure that we were bringing to life will survive.

We will make one last ditch attempt to save it.

And then we will mourn.