Last month, I was seeing feeds everywhere and jokingly mentioned that I might end up thinking of myself as a feed.  JY, commented that he already did.  Anyway, I did started thinking about what it meant for a person to be a feed and ended up with an inverted question: what if a feed is an object?

Nothing surprising there.  Prodding along, I got to: what if a feed is a music or a movie?  Now that is an interesting question.  If so, one should be able to play a feed as one would an MP3 file or a movie.  Since it is confusing to think about music and movie feeds at the same time, I abstracted the feed into a performance feed: feed of performance whether it is a rap song, a poem, movie, or just a video of ocean waves.

Now, what does such a feed look like?  At syntax level, it would be an RSS feed containing many items of enclosures for audio and videos.  Since it is a performance, each item plays a part in the performance.  To synchronize the pieces of a performance, some items will contain SMIL fragments to pull the pieces together.  Let's call those items composition posts.

Rising back to social software level, how do those pieces get into a performance feed?  This question leads to a feed with many contributors where a traditional blog feed has only one contributor, the blogger himself.  That's still not exciting enough.  So the wiki concept is thrown in to end up with a feed into which anyone can contribute.  Some would contribute musica, video, or images, others would pull them together to create compositions.

Going back to the player side, when a listener would use a Performance Player to open a feed, a list of compositions would appear.  Note that the feed will continue to grow as more people contribute, so the list of composition will grow over time.  The listener selects a composition and plays it.

Now THAT is exciting.  Why Frankenstein?  It's a creation made out of pieces from many people, isn't it?  While I was thinking about this idea, the final vision I had was of Frankenstein singing atop a mountain at night with full moon behind him and his voice was that of a thousand people playing a music together.