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see also [[User:Simon/Editing|editing]]
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Image: QWERTY keyboard layout
Image: QWERTY keyboard layout
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[[Category:Tasks of the Contingent Librarian|machine writing]]
[[Category:Tasks of the Contingent Librarian|machine writing]]

Latest revision as of 18:50, 10 June 2020

machine writing

see also editing

This text is being written on a QWERTY keyboard, through a browser, using a software called “Etherpad” that records every changeset—every typed key of the characters that are added or deleted. The software is logging these changes fast enough that it appears to be happening in real time. I can also go back through every previous changeset to older versions with the granularity of the individual character. This is the liminal space between texts; in split-seconds of processing where human writing is manipulated by machine writing.

Image: QWERTY keyboard layout