<nettime-ann> Announcing: _:terror(aw)ed patches:_ [A Google Wave(let) Transformation Wurk]

[mez breeze <netwurker@gmail.com>]

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Announcing:
_:terror(aw)ed patches:_
A Google Wave(let) Transformation by Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez, 2009

Title: _:terror(aw)ed patches:_

URL: http://non-playercharacter.com/?p=43

Description: Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez create a new method of collaborative fiction through _live concurrent editing_ in Google Wave. This process results in expressive output[s] termed "Transformations":

"Google Wave uses an algorithmic variation of “operational transformations”
[live concurrent editing] which occur through a process called
transformation:

• The server transforms the client’s request, resulting in the client manifesting the same transformed output.
• The notion of concurrency is invariably important as it mimics geophysical conversational states.
• Utilizing the server as a point of relay [when more than one client's output is involved] assists in providing scalability and reliability.
• The playback feature allows the server to present the document as a stream of operations that have occurred thus far in a particular wave/state.

Transformation relies on continual modification...This accent on process acts to rewire the notion of documents as statically defined “objects” and [by proxy] any information contained within. This has enormous implications in regards to such institutionally-governed categories such as literacy, media, the professional/amateur divide, narrative, and information construction."

Feedback appreciated.


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