Well, everyone will say: Isn't that obvious? We can write whatever we want, and click "add comment" or "submit post".
We are talking here about what you can do to send a different message than that in the text you write, other than the information clear in your post.
An example (feel free to add comments for more data carriers):
- The exact hour:minute of posting your comment.
- Number of posts per day
- Number of letters in each post
- Number of ".", "!", smileys, ... in each post.
This might seem ridiculous, but notice how many statements we end with multiple full stops and the reader will just assume that it is a writing style (a bad one indeed).
hour:minute information
You can post the same message but in different times of day, so which minute you choose is an important piece of information:
You can send in any hour:minute out of the 60x60 possibilities. Take the logarithm to the base 2: you have (rounding down) 11 bits (11.813 bits to be exact). That's 2048 different options.
If you posted 3 posts a day (which is not strange for many). Then you have 33 bits, equivalent to 8,589,934,592 different options. Nice !! (I could have written it 'Nice !!!' and you wouldn't think it is strange, but I wanted to send some specific message :) )
I will discuss the rest in separate posts/comments.
2 comments:
Also, how many spaces to put after your full stop. And let's say that each sentence represents a bit, and its value is 0 if it has one blank space after its full stop and it represents 1 if it has 2 blank spaces after it :-)
The time of day should mainly be used as a delta, and not as a pure timestamp.
So for example, one can send a sequence of messages (assume all identical), with a delay of 1,2,...16 seconds. Then each new information carries the information of 4 bits. But of course, the rate is 4 bits over a 16 seconds period (0.25 bits per second).
Also, note that this is a variable rate stream.
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