Googly
I rarely get really, really excited about new technology. Not that I haven’t been impressed with some of the new gadgets/techbits that have come out over the years, but to be perfectly honest a great deal of it was just far to expensive for me (Such as iPhones) or I just didn’t understand it (I’ll never get twitter, sadly).
However I became deeply impressed by the early stages of the new Google Wave. Its hard to really explain what it is, but for the first time in quite a while it actually showed off things that really inspired me.
The more that I had seen of the Demo, the more inspired I became. Thoughts of interactive Felwroth Wiki’s with those I trust or who are interested, A way to share images in context, live blog updates, etc.
But the really big one was collaborative story. I’ve been trying to do more open writing with others again and find that the best ideas come from the times that I get to jam out a story or even an idea with others. In fact a dear friend actually got me back into this frame of mind after citing that a lot of writers collaborate this way.
So with Wave, I could see myself becoming a *lot* more productive in getting stories out there. Even if its in snippets. Edits would remain and slowly a story would take on form and meaning and suddenly have a solid place. I like the idea of starting, say, a ‘wave’ about the Javarran people and having three folks offer up thoughts, twists, or even entirely new edits on the race and suddenly they’d have a permanent ‘history’ in the world (Well, at least in the wave browser.. or whatever its called).
I’m going to be poking around on Wave I think. Probably far more than I do on Facebook or Livejournal, both of which I haven’t updated in a long time. I just see myself getting more interactive use out of Wave.
I’m acutally going over a whole bunch of ‘Wroth wiki’s in my mind right now. Even though I should be sleeping.
Stupid sinus headaches.
Rick Griffin
Well since you mentioned it, I looked it up, and this is exactly the kind of wiki/docshare/comment/emailing program that I’ve always wanted for story things. I remember the summer before last I was panicking over wanting a better way to share writing and organize those documents, and I ended up getting a pbwiki to do things, and it didn’t work that well, and it just wasn’t the kind of platform I wanted.
Now, if there were some way to combine this with a Scrivener type program, that would be the best thing ever. It’s already halfway there.
Oct 02, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
Pants King
Say, that looks fairly swift. I wonder if you could swap music pieces with it as well to get the colab tune scene rocking?
Oct 04, 2009 @ 2:08 am
Tim Johnson
It looks like you can, or at least it will be set up to be ‘media rich’ which I’m willing to bet includes sound files of all sorts. They can already do movie files and pictures in the early alpha stages (With some crashes, of course).
It would open up a lot of tools to do collaborations with.
Oct 05, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
Tim Johnson
I admit I was in the same boat as well. I wanted to do up a universal Wiki on the world/characters I’ve created over the last little while, but wanted a way for more creative input that I could still have control of, especially when it came to doing images and writing collaborations with others (I do a lot of hive-mind writing now with four other people).
I had even pondered a way to do such a thing with a Facebook profile until I got wind of their policy on content left on the site. So Wave is starting to fill a pretty big hole in that void.
It still has its kinks, but seeing as it was this impressive at such an early stage, I’ve got some hopes for it.
Oct 05, 2009 @ 6:30 pm