{"id":2846,"date":"2009-05-02T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T00:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2009-05-02T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T00:20:07","slug":"cool-tool-etherpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/cool-tool-etherpad\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Tool: Etherpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine introduced me to a new project he&#8217;s working on. As the website touts, <a href=\"http:\/\/etherpad.com\/\">Etherpad<\/a> is <strong>really<\/strong> real-time collaboration. It lets multiple people work on the same document simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>I used it to great effect working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noisebridge.net\/wiki\/Sfusd_excel_program\">recent document collaboration<\/a>. I collaborated with 2 other people, making a proposal for the San Francisco Unified School District. Sometimes we worked in person on multiple laptop computers in a coffee shop. Sometimes we worked completely online, using the tools chat functionality. It worked well both ways.<\/p>\n<p>And it is really a hoot watching someone type on their computer and have the each character appear on my screen in realtime, just 1 second delayed. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The product is very new but it accomplishes its core functionality flawlessly. Try <a href=\"http:\/\/etherpad.com\/\">Etherpad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine introduced me to a new project he&#8217;s working on. As the website touts, Etherpad is really real-time collaboration. It lets multiple people work on the same document simultaneously. I used it to great effect working on a recent document collaboration. I collaborated with 2 other people, making a proposal for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}