kollaboration conceptual writing-space hotspots Diary, European gutenberg-galaxis hypertext-commonplace inter-textual links poetic of links? xchange textual surfaces switching Machines of Text interfacing imaginary library
On the hardware level, the "Electronic Cafè" impresses through the media integration of all available media - on the soft ware level, a type of simple mail box program functions as a communal data base - "community memory": "Every user has unlimited interactive access to the data bases and is equally entitled to offer submissions. Everyone can send messages any time, open files, read other messages and enter comments and suggestions through openly accessible terminals in libraries, supermarkets, cafeterias, and community centres. There is neither censorship nor personal files although messages and files can only be altered by their authors (...) an instrument for collective thinking, planning, organisation, decision making (...) " (Youngblood 86, 300)
In the On-line writing project HYPERKNAST, these rights of authorship, originality, untouchability of texts are not dropped in favour of complete accessibility for all network participants to all operations of alteration, deletion, combination etc., although the deleted text sections should be moved to a separate recycling file...
Youngblood, Gene: Der virtuelle Raum. Die elektronischen Umfelder von Mobile Image, in: Ars Electronica. Festival für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Linz 1986, p.299