I can always use a hand when I write blog posts. Usually, I don’t get any and you’re stuck reading what I can manage to scrape together.
But now, I can get a little famous help.
Google Docs now has an experimental “Master’s Edition”. It’s one thing to collaborate with Fred down the street, a group of students, planners for a project, collaborators for work, but now you can get to write with one of the greats.
The “Master’s Edition” lets you work with
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- William Shakespeare
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Emily Dickinson
- Charles Dickins
- Edgar Allan Poe
Head over to this page. You’re dumped into a new Google Word Processing document with the above six as collaborators.
Start your document. When you finish a sentence to pause for a thought…your collaborators kick in for inspiration.
It’s going to take some time to master this, I see. In the meantime, it’s just fun to work with the team!
What’s next Google?
A spreadsheet with a famous mathematician?
The ultimate presentation from a famous TED talker?
Have fun!
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Good morning, Doug!
This find of yours was just too good to pass up. I was on my iPad in an instant, and shortly thereafter I was sitting in front of my computer, doing a screen capture as I wrote. I’ve posted a response: “Create with the Great”.
It will be interesting to see where this goes. I gather it’s currently an experiment on the part of Google. Maybe a bit of a step up from Weizenbaum’s Eliza at MIT in the 60s?