_:terror(aw)ed patches:_ [A Google Wave(let) Transformation Wurk]
Announcing:
_:terror(aw)ed patches:_
A Google Wave(let) Transformation by Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez, 2009
Title: _:terror(aw)ed patches:_
Original URL: http://non-playercharacter.com/?p=43
Description: Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez create a new method of collaborative “fiction” through _live concurrent editing_ in Google Wave. This process results in expressive output[s] termed “Transformations”:
“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…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.”
Feedback appreciated.
Tags: collaborative live editing | concurrency | Google Wave | social tesseracting | transformation
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3 Responses to “_:terror(aw)ed patches:_ [A Google Wave(let) Transformation Wurk]”.
Hi Mez – I enjoyed the video but I’m wondering why you didn’t embed the actual wave here or in a blog elsewhere – but maybe that feature isn’t available yet? I missed your Timestamp wave live but it was great replaying it the next morning in googlewave. Of course the video of _:terror(aw)ed patches:_ becomes something else, especially with the music – less of a reading experience, more of a letting-the-wave-wash-over-my-eyeballs kind of thing. Certain phrases imprinted themselves due to repetition, while others shifted dyslexically, e.g. unshockable – odd how that misreading persisted for me.
hiya c,
thx 4 taking the time 2 absorb the transformation:).
when u ask y i haven’t embedded the wave video here – the [initial] wurk itself isn’t in video format: it’s constructed via the live editing feature encountered in Google Wave. the video is a type of documentation/artifact of the process – it does indeed become “something else”.
if you [or any other netpoetic peeps] would live an invite to Wave, I have some spare. let me kno in comments.
chunks,
@netwurker
hi mez – sorry if I wasn’t clear but I didn’t mean the wave video, I meant the wave itself. As far as I (mis?)understood from the googlewave boffins, it’s possible (or will be possible) to actually embed a wave into a blog. I was wondering if you had embedded the _:terror(aw)ed patches:_ wave into a blog or webpage somewhere?
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