I love the internet
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schemingreaderI love Googledocs. Finally I managed to send the same document to two beta-readers at once, and can see their edits on the exact same document! Not only that--talk about instant gratfication--I went to check to see the edits of one of the readers and saw that the other one was reading the document!
It was like I was her annoying friend, reading over her shoulder! Yeah, pretty much exactly like that.
I love the whole phenomenon of beta-reading. I love my beta-readers, because they actually have good advice for me. I love imagining them in their various far-away homes in far-away time zones, reading my story and going "Ooh! Ahhh! Tsk! Oy, what is she doing with verb tenses?" etc.
Ooooh, I have this big long story to beta-read, and I've been trying to figure out how to enter the edits so that the author can see them without having to constantly change the fonts. I just realized that I could do it in Googledocs! Aha! That solves the problem of my dependence on Microsoft Word with an author who doesn't have it! Bwa ha ha ha! I love the internet MORE!
I love chat. I love getting to talk with other writers about things we are writing. I love typing out my laughter, which in real life actually sounds like someone saying Ha! Ha! Ha! Or so some have told me. I am laughing all the way in California. I am making little goofy emoticons, all the way in Northern Ireland, and getting serious love that feels like having a backrub in the middle of the night. (You know what I mean, right?)
I love getting a quick ping from a friend in town, just casually asking me to participate in a major family milestone. "Could you do me a favor!" Yes! Sure! It's the internet!
Anyway, so that's what I'll be doing this afternoon. The library and fan fiction both can wait. :)
It was like I was her annoying friend, reading over her shoulder! Yeah, pretty much exactly like that.
I love the whole phenomenon of beta-reading. I love my beta-readers, because they actually have good advice for me. I love imagining them in their various far-away homes in far-away time zones, reading my story and going "Ooh! Ahhh! Tsk! Oy, what is she doing with verb tenses?" etc.
Ooooh, I have this big long story to beta-read, and I've been trying to figure out how to enter the edits so that the author can see them without having to constantly change the fonts. I just realized that I could do it in Googledocs! Aha! That solves the problem of my dependence on Microsoft Word with an author who doesn't have it! Bwa ha ha ha! I love the internet MORE!
I love chat. I love getting to talk with other writers about things we are writing. I love typing out my laughter, which in real life actually sounds like someone saying Ha! Ha! Ha! Or so some have told me. I am laughing all the way in California. I am making little goofy emoticons, all the way in Northern Ireland, and getting serious love that feels like having a backrub in the middle of the night. (You know what I mean, right?)
I love getting a quick ping from a friend in town, just casually asking me to participate in a major family milestone. "Could you do me a favor!" Yes! Sure! It's the internet!
Anyway, so that's what I'll be doing this afternoon. The library and fan fiction both can wait. :)
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Date: 2007-02-11 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-11 07:52 pm (UTC)THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT FEELS LIKE!!! I started at goggle docs to collab, then started writing there a lot on my own when the laptop crashed and I didn't want to save my porn to my husbands desktop. I've always just invited my betas to the docs! It fantastic! Last night I sat there and watched my beta edit and felt exactly like that, like, 'Hmm, perhaps I should close the doc and let her edit in peace.' LOL!
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Date: 2007-02-12 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 01:41 am (UTC)It is only complicated to the extent that it's kind of in beta-testing. The 1984 ish bit is the same as giving Google access to our data through email, or Six Apart access to our thoughts through LJ, etc.
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Date: 2007-02-12 02:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 05:21 pm (UTC)Their help says: "Google Docs & Spreadsheets will work wherever you have access to the Internet via a Windows or Macintosh computer with one of the following browsers:
IE 6.0+ (Windows); Firefox 1.07, 1.5.0.6+ (Mac & Windows -- except for 1.0.8 on Windows and Mac, and 1.5b1 on Mac); Mozilla 1.7.12+; Netscape 7.2, 8.0."
Alas, it doesn't work with Opera (yet...): when I tried it I got this heart-warming message from them.
"If you are working to fix problems with a specific browser and would like to bypass this check, just add &browserok=true to the end of the Google Docs & Spreadsheets url.
Please note that it is a violation of intergalactic law to use this parameter under false pretenses, so don't let us catch you at it.
And, it won't work very well -- really."
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Date: 2007-02-12 09:39 pm (UTC)Also, would I need a gmail account? Do you still need invites to get those? (Why yes, I could just check it out via their website, but this way I get human responses I stand a chance of understanding.)
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Date: 2007-02-12 10:14 pm (UTC)However, more technologically-competent friends assure me that a) Firefox is FREE, you can d/l it and run it alongside Safari with no problem; b) you can set a preference in Safari for 'tell MacOS X what your default browser is' - so you should have no problems. If all you want to do in Firefox is run gmail, I'd think that would be fine.
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Date: 2007-02-12 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 10:22 pm (UTC)I did used to have firefox on Maude, but when I got Henry she came with Safari so I've just been using that instead. Ah well, I should probably get Firefox in order to use googledocs because they do sound incredibly helpful.