Re: [-empyre-] Re: feedback

[Brandon Barr <barr@mail.rochester.edu>]

At 12:36 PM 6/13/2002 +1000, Adrian wrote:
> At 12:00 +1000 13/6/02, Brandon Barr wrote:
> > So--if blogs are transitional, perhaps it is toward a medium that will
> > allow a reader to watch a writer AS THEY ARE TYPING, in realtime, and
> > comment on a sentence before it is finished.
>
> and so where would a wiki fit in this then? :-)

Well, the Wikis that I've seen still have a lag between editing and 
publishing;  in many respects they are like a blog that allows anyone to 
publish/design.  Whiteboard software comes closer to what I'm 
suggesting--writing spaces that are continuously updated on every logged-on 
system and allow changes from anywhere.  I have often thought that this 
software could be used by visual poets or net artists to create 
collaborative works on the fly.  Imagine something like Flash, but where 
everyone sees the same stage and can make changes on it.  There could be a 
snapshot option which anyone could press that would publish the work as 
is--readers could view the archive of various moments that struck 
participants, or log into the realtime changes--and make changes themselves.

Brandon Barr
University of Rochester
http://brandonbarr.com/