I've been thinking about turning Scripting News into some kind of a book ever since I started writing here. But I'm a blogger not a book writer. That means I write threads not plots. Although I'm sure there are plots buried in the threads. Repeating themes. If only I knew how to extract them.

With news that Google has a piece of software that plays Go better than the best human being, you can't help but wonder if the algorithmeteers at Google, or Facebook even, couldn't produce some data from the linkage both within my blog and from the outside world, to show me which were the pivotal pieces in the 22-year-history of this blog, and even better, what are the themes. I imagine that with enough work they could probably even put the book together automatically.

Then I thought that they hired Poole, the founder of 4CHAN to try to breathe life into Google-Plus as a community site. But Google already owns Blogger. And I'd be very happy if they did something interesting with the content on my blog.

It's funny that Google has been such an adversary over the years. Trying to erase my work, sometimes very willfully, when if we worked together, some great results might come of it. For example, what if Google decided to embrace Facebook's IA format. I would help them figure it out. It's a totally ripe invitation for interop, and adding power to the open web, which also adds power to Google, I believe.