• Intro: Radical Occasionality
• February 1995: @Rhetnet
• March 1995: Washington D.C.
• May 1995: El Paso, Texas
• July 1995: Somewhere in Michigan
• August 1995: I-90 Eastbound
• August-September 1995: Troy, New York
• September 1995: @MediaMOO
• October 1995: Troy, New York
• June 1997: Honolulu, Hawaii
• November 2001: Dallas, Texas
• Further Reading
• Salvo Responds: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Kairos logo circa 1996.

I used to be able to point people to a testing site for Macromedia's LikeMinds product at www.moviecritic.com (unfortunately, no longer available). It had a "taste engine" online. You would tell the database what you think of 12 or 15 movies, and it would suggest movies you might like.

Only for our future writing textbook, the "taste engine" remembers which explanations you found helpful in the past and offers similar custom-delivered content, not on a campus-by campus basis, or a class-by-class basis, but on an on-the-fly individually determined basis.

Actually, moviecritic.com used to scare me — I would "test" it by asking about movies that I love or loathe that I hadn't rated and it would do a pretty good job of "guessing" my reaction to movies — some pretty far-flung titles, too. Guessing taste is one thing — Amazon.com does that.

But customized arguments?