Re: [-empyre-] Re: feedback

[parrishka <parrishka@sympatico.ca>]

oh yea baby.

had many a cool MOO moment using a white board with people from all over the
world, and chatting in synchro at the same time.

the possibilities are endless.

my favourite app for this sort of thing, though, cause i'm a texty girl at
heart, is the ICQ chat window.
I love being able to watch the letters typed in real time.. watching people
back up over a typo like some virtual garbage truck.

i know this is off the blog topic slightly.. but wait.. lemme see if i can
bring my thoughts back there.

this all started from the notion of the acceleration of speed, ya?

and what we find we lose is the sense of permanence i guess..
yes, you can take snapshots as things unfold..
and of course, you'd post those snapshots on your blog...

and i guess that's what i'm thinking about
if i were going to define or isolate the power of the blog, it's in the
archiving- the documenting, as has been suggested here.
it's part of that beautifully obssessive compulsive need to preserve, to write
against loss- which I have always thought of as being consistent with the
orgins of the net, the memex as a preservation of knowledge, communication
against the threat of annihilation, the cold war paranoia. Jill, I believe you
did make this connection in one of your writings, and I was really glad to see
someone finally say it, because I think it's deeply important.

Many of the a-lister bloggers are in their early 30's (i only refer to them
cause they're the ones still getting interviewed, and writing the books that
get taken up in popular discourse...) as I am, and I remember sitting in the
auditorium in highschool, being told that the doomsday clock was at 2 minutes
to midnight. I still can't listen to that song, "dancing with tears in my eyes"
without breaking down. Pretty sure these fears still haunt my generation on a
deep level.

katherine



Brandon Barr wrote:

> 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/
>
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