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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 | 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 == | == Method == | ||
The method was to begin writing a text about what I was doing (writing and editing | The method was to begin writing a text about what I was doing (writing, reading and editing). I began by establishing 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]] | [[File:18 11 21 Pad difs 01.jpg|400|frameless|The entire text, recreated with authorship colours]] | ||
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The authorship colours with text removed: | The authorship colours with text removed: | ||
[[File:18 11 21 Pad difs colours_all.jpg|400px|frameless]] | [[File:18 11 21 Pad difs colours_all.jpg|400px|frameless|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. The software of Etherpad makes this visible with its authorship colours, all the more so when it is used as it has been designed; collaboratively. | |||
Revision as of 12:07, 5 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 begin writing a text about what I was doing (writing, reading and editing). I began by establishing 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.
Isolated outcomes
Each iteration is isolated in the following visualisations:
The 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. The software of Etherpad makes this visible with its authorship colours, all the more so when it is used as it has been designed; collaboratively.