If you are watching sport, football, tennis, cricket, whatever, are you projecting on to the players? With the rise of MMORPG is traditional sport doomed? I've been watching Game Revolution and speculating on the future of sport.

I laughed when I heard on the 2007-06-21 05:30 ABC RN broadcast of My Word. Denis Nordon had been asked by Jack Longland "What does the verb mean to Google". Jack used a short "Oh" as in "book" and Denis used the longer "Oh" as in "Sue" that we (post http://google.com) are all used to. I managed to get a copy of Frank Muir's 1976 book "The Frank Muir Book: An irreverent companion to social history" which is a fascinating collection of anecdotes and quotations collected as "Music", "Education", "Literature", "Theatre", "Art" and "Food and Drink". For example, "Show me the main who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore" Robert Morley. Or, "Education, n, That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding." Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary".

I've been wanting to write a paper like this for several years. It uses visualisation techniques to determine social roles in online discussions. In this case they can detect what they call "Answer People". I've been following the work of Marc Smith since I listened to a podcast Catalyzing Collective Action on the Net (2004-02-11) from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference. I even bought his book (1999) Communities in Cyberspace. I think I can apply these techniques to a large collection I have.