Nick: In "Learning from YouTube," I chose to not allow comments, perhaps the most unpopular and disturbing decision I made for that project as far as my readers are concerned (I do let them author their own page, or texteo, as I call it). I find that I am glad to be commenting here, but in so doing already feel how this practice is only the ghost of interaction, as I imagine I probably won't get a response, I'm not really writing with you, or others who may read this comment, nor an I writing your page. You end this page by imagining a radical openness to our Internet writing and I see how this interface for commenting (offered to me as a box over your text) both points to, constrains, and begs for more. I wonder what writing together would look and feel like, and what infrastructure and rules it might demand.

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