TBT [Time Based Text]: an experiment(al) (in) writing
JoDI and Jaromil+DYNE.org collective produced interesting utility and potentialy initiated a new discourse within their respective work...
<nettime> TBT [Time Based Text]: an experiment(al) (in) writing - *TBT [Time Based Text]: an experiment(al) (in) writing* Time Based Text can be considered software art, but above all it is a new form of digital poetics. Time Based Text offers a creative, experimental, joyful and critical way of handling digital text by implementing interactivity, new software and network communications. Time Based Text is a type-performance that illustrates feelings. The emphasis of the software is on the process of writing/typing. TBT is a tool for time-based recording and playback of the process of typing a message, with the accuracy of milliseconds. The basic interface for typing records all typing and plays it back exactly the way the text was typed the first time, including all hesitations and misspellings. It reveals additional information on digital poetry, because the speed of typing and reading it, are visualised. E-mail, blogs, all kinds of digital media can be given a “human touch” by TBT. The software has been kept as basic as possible, is free to use and users are encouraged ...
Interesting direction and goes well inline with what Aleksandar Erkalovic ACO (http://www.binarni.net/) and me (http://bio.zeljko.blace.name/) produced http://positive.QUBE-Mag.info/ back in late November for World AIDS Day (for QUBE Mag).
A kind of non-interactive & non-hypertext anti-splash page, featuring informal and personal interviews with friends who are HIV+. Format of playable real-time chat and the stillness, slowness and no-links-to-click-away disturbed a lot of people, but those who got through liked the switch in perception and moving/inspiring content.
Would consider using your web software in the future, but can not expect people to run custom apps for a single chat interview, so we are still looking for web based app to capture keystrokes and export into a XML or some open binary format. Any ideas?