Submitted by Greg J. Smith on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 01:20
Excerpts from a missive sent to nettime earlier today:
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":
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.
Some notes on transformations:
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.
Pretty cool