Paul Vanouse, Eric Nyberg, and Lisa Hutton—“Persistent Data Confidante”
The Persistent Data Confidante site collects people’s confessions. It solicits: “Have you ever felt the need to share with others a part of you which was very private?” Once a person confesses, the site shares someone else’s confession in anonymous form. The reader then rates the quality of the confession; the cumulating references affect the future likelihood of that confession being shared. Periodically, the site will mate two highly rated confessions to generate an offspring.