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By: “written with playback in mind” is wri… « Paul M. Watson

“written with playback in mind” is wri… « Paul M. Watson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:26:14 +0000

[…] 4:26 pm on November 13, 2009 Reply Tags: literature (14), web (663) “written with playback in mind” is writing as a performance art. Possible with the playback features of Etherpad and Google Wave. […]

By: Toward the Sentient City: The Future of the Outernet and How to Imagine it? | UgoTrade

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:10:06 +0000

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By: Jeremy B

Jeremy B — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:33:31 +0000

I've been doing time-lapse videos of myself writing short pieces of music criticism: hip hop rising star Lil Wayne: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxgpOtryO_4 and experimental musician M. Rosner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqADiySvni0 Enjoy!

By: Tim Maly

Tim Maly — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:39:04 +0000

I’m assuming that you’ve seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxF9oz9Cu0

Check your Wave BTW.

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:21:57 +0000

Your Wave robot idea is super SUPER interesting. Can’t wait to hear/see more.

By: Steven Klotz

Steven Klotz — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:31:55 +0000

I’ve been playing with and getting excited about Google Wave. One note and then a larger idea.

Note: While the participants in a wave that’s being edited can see the individual keystrokes as they happen, playback is in larger chunks.

Larger Idea: Wave allows for the creation of “robots,” which are programmed participants in the wave. This is where I’d really like to experiment to develop a unique, non-linear narrative. I’d create a robot for multiple points of view and set them up to vamp off of each other once any real person created a wave with them. I’m actually working on code and will announce more at my website as it solidifies.

By: Z. Ralia

Z. Ralia — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:27:12 +0000

The artist E. G. Gauger is doing this with painting. It’s called SWEATSHOP and has been running for a few weeks now. It’s like internet painter’s busking; the camera runs while the painting goes up, has a chatroom audience, and sometimes a tip jar. Other times, Gauger works on commissions that the audience sends in. It’s intense.

http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2009/09/27/sunday-sketchdump-batmans-forever/

By: jeremyet

jeremyet — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:51:26 +0000

We Tell Stories (2008) had a live writing component — for a week Nicci French wrote a short story live, an hour every day for five days. The audience could see the words appear as the authors typed them and could discuss the evolving story in a chatroom. This was performance writing — the archived story is here http://wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week4/about/

By: ][mez][

][mez][ — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:30:16 +0000

“Social Tesseractions are marked by fluid, process-oriented engagement rather than rigid procedural structuring. Process centering prompts a re-evaluation of data formation and alters the entrenched importance of institutionalised categorisations. An emergent example of process centering is Google Wave. Google Wave uses an algorithmic variation of “operational transformations” [live concurrent editing] which occur through a process called transformation:

* The server transforms the client’s request, resulting in the client manifesting the same transformed output.
* The notion of concurrency is invariably important as it mimics geophysical conversational states.
* Utilizing the server as a point of relay [when more than one client’s output is involved] assists in providing scalability and reliability.
* The playback feature allows the server to present the document as a stream of operations that have occurred thus far in a particular wave/state.

Transformation relies on continual modification via process centering. This accent on process acts to rewire the notion of documents as statically defined “objects” and [by proxy] any information contained within. This has enormous implications in regards to such institutionally-governed categories such as literacy, media, the professional/amateur divide, narrative, and information construction…”
http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/06/01/_social-tesseracting_-part-2/

By: AR Wave: Layers and Channels of Social Augmented Experiences | UgoTrade

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:52:57 +0000

[…] on the Wave playback feature – this opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Check out this post on some of the implications of playback for […]