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== Description of task ==
Timed writing task using Etherpad, a collaborative realtime browser-based text editor, beginning with writing periods of 3 minutes, and a rest of 2 minutes. After 5 iterations, this shifts to 5 minutes for both respectively.<br>
In November 2018, I experimented with a timed writing task using Etherpad, a collaborative realtime browser-based text editor. Etherpad automatically assigns authorship colours to users, and I wanted to explore how a text that I was writing, reading and editing over a specific time period could be visualised.
 
== Method ==
The method was to write for one hour. I begin by writing a text about what I was doing (writing, reading and editing). For time constraints, I established writing periods of 3 minutes, and a rest period of 2 minutes. After 6 iterations, this shifted to 5 minutes for both respectively. I kept writing and opening up new private tabs in my browser to give each iteration new authorship colours. These are lost when exported, so I recreated the text and authorship colours to make visualisations.<br>
 
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs 01.jpg|400|frameless|The entire text, recreated with authorship colours]]
 
== Isolated iterations ==
 
Each iteration is isolated in the following visualisations:
 
<gallery>
<gallery>
18 11 21 Pad difs 01.jpg|
18 11 21 Pad difs 910.jpg| 21:10-21:15
18 11 21 Pad difs 915.jpg| 21:15-21:20
18 11 21 Pad difs 920.jpg| 21:20-21:25
18 11 21 Pad difs 925.jpg| 21:25-21:30
18 11 21 Pad difs 930.jpg| 21:30-21:35
18 11 21 Pad difs 940.jpg| 21:35-21:40
18 11 21 Pad difs 950.jpg| 21:40-21:50
18 11 21 Pad difs 1000.jpg| 21:50-22:00
18 11 21 Pad difs colours.jpg| 22:00-22:10
</gallery>
</gallery>
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs 910.jpg|200px|frameless]]
 
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs 915.jpg|200px|frameless]]
The authorship colours with text removed:
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs 920.jpg|200px|frameless]]
 
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs 925.jpg|200px|frameless]]
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs colours_all.jpg|400px|frameless|Authorship colours with text removed]]
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs 930.jpg|200px|frameless]]
 
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs 940.jpg|200px|frameless]]
The experiment showed me that editing is a way of writing, kind of like making growing a tree while making furniture from it. Whatever is written is there to be pruned and shaped into pieces that are joined together to form a supportive text structure. Etherpad makes this visible with its authorship colours, all the more so when it is used as it has been designed; collaboratively.
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs 950.jpg|200px|frameless]]
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs 1000.jpg|200px|frameless]]
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs colours.jpg|200px|frameless]]
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs colours_all.jpg|800px|frameless]]

Latest revision as of 18:13, 10 June 2020

Description of task

In November 2018, I experimented with a timed writing task using Etherpad, a collaborative realtime browser-based text editor. Etherpad automatically assigns authorship colours to users, and I wanted to explore how a text that I was writing, reading and editing over a specific time period could be visualised.

Method

The method was to write for one hour. I begin by writing a text about what I was doing (writing, reading and editing). For time constraints, I established writing periods of 3 minutes, and a rest period of 2 minutes. After 6 iterations, this shifted to 5 minutes for both respectively. I kept writing and opening up new private tabs in my browser to give each iteration new authorship colours. These are lost when exported, so I recreated the text and authorship colours to make visualisations.

The entire text, recreated with authorship colours

Isolated iterations

Each iteration is isolated in the following visualisations:

The authorship colours with text removed:

Authorship colours with text removed

The experiment showed me that editing is a way of writing, kind of like making growing a tree while making furniture from it. Whatever is written is there to be pruned and shaped into pieces that are joined together to form a supportive text structure. Etherpad makes this visible with its authorship colours, all the more so when it is used as it has been designed; collaboratively.