Thursday, August 14, 2014

Ether Pad

This is a web-based-collaborative Editor which has as a first cousin Chaos.

It does not have to be so, but with little discipline utilized by its participants, can move there.

It allows simultaneous edit (more than one at a time) of the same document. This is why it can become chaotic.

It has a good feature in that many pads can exist, and that they can represent not just a place to edit, but a focused subject or topic, in which several people may wish to have keyboard-to-keyboard contact (you notice that faces are not used - but why not?)

That is already another application scenario filled by GooglePlus and Skype.

It is just the beginning of my experimentation with this application, and I mean to stretch it in ways not originally intended, with the application of organization and naming schemes and structures, together with internet linkages and some other tricks and slight of hand schemes.

In addition to that and Artifact-is, other characteristics and properties may be manipulated and utilized, such as:
  artifacts-having,  artifact-containing, artifacts-with, artifacts-without
  artifacts-being, artifacts-available, artifacts-unreachable, artifacts-not-ready
  artifacts-as-message-bearers
  artifacts-in-action or artifact-in-use
  artifacts may also be placed or located, removed or modified, locked, un-locked, pending, have-associates, be-federated, be-in-isolation or imprisoned, 
  and so on and on
  the list grows






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