Google Wave – A Writer's Tool?
I wonder if others are seeing what I’m seeing in Google Wave. I am finding Google Wave a perfect tool for writing down ideas and refining them before publishing. I create a Wave, jot down some thoughts then come back to them when I’m ready to expand the notion into a blog post. I realize I can do this with email and save the draft. I do that in fact at times. Email seems so overwhelming at times that I just find it refreshing to sit down in a new environment to write. There is the added ability to share a Wave with someone I want to review and feedback on my ideas and that is where Google Wave really shines. Again it’s possible to do that in email but the back and forth sloshing of email replies gets messy to read and frankly just lost in the wash of email that is constantly coming in. There is a robot that will post a Google Wave directly to Posterous and it seems to work well though you can’t go back and edit the Wave and expect the post to be edited. That’s not possible at this time. I’d like the ability to add attachments from the Google Wave into Posterous also. I imagine that’s all coming over time.
I’m curious now what it would be like to develop a video short or documentary using Google Wave with collaborators. Sure seems like it would help make it possible to capture, explore and refine ideas easier with crew. The ability to quickly add one or two people to share your Wave with is part of the joy. Again, this can be done in Google Docs easily enough. There is just something about Google Wave that makes for a more immediate and intimate collaboration process. I’ll see how this pans out over time as more of my business contacts and friends are on Google Wave and I actually use Waves as part of my social interactions.
