<divclass="cardback"><DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT><divclass="mw-parser-output"><divclass="thumb tright"><divclass="thumbinner"style="width:152px;"><aclass="image"href="https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/thumb/5/5a/Chronicle_of_current_events.jpeg/720px-Chronicle_of_current_events.jpeg"><imgalt=""class="thumbimage"decoding="async"src="https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/thumb/5/5a/Chronicle_of_current_events.jpeg/320px-Chronicle_of_current_events.jpeg"></a><divclass="thumbcaption"><divclass="magnify"><aclass="internal"href="File:Chronicle_of_current_events.jpeg.html"title="Enlarge"></a></div>Facsimile of A Chronicle of Current Events (Russian: Хро́ника теку́щих собы́тий)</div></div></div>
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<p>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.
<p>The method was to write for one hour. I begin by writing a text about what I was doing (writing, reading and editing). For time constraints, I established 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>
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</p><p>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. Etherpad makes this visible with its authorship colours, all the more so when it is used as it has been designed; collaboratively.
