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Charlot Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
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UofMN CSS Web Development <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:56:40 -0600
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Could you remove me from your listserve?

Thanks,

Charlot Meyer
Graphic/Web Designer			
University of Minnesota
Minnesota Population Center
50 Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

phone: 612-626-4216





On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Tony Thomas wrote:

> I'm not sure Google has anything this "Big Picture" in mind for  
> Wave. I think they may be using the Twitter model of development:  
> Build something kind of cool and let users test it to find their own  
> uses.
>
> Right now, it just seems like email+. In other words, email with the  
> ability to embed some neat widgets.
>
> I've tried to use it like chat, and it's almost completely useless  
> that way.
>
> I've used it to manage a small project and it worked very well as a  
> sophisticated to-do list with hierarchical "conversations"  
> surrounding each bullet point. (A similar conversation over email  
> might have spanned 50-60 messages and would be much harder to track.)
>
> Anyone who has been in on the Twin Cities wave has seen what happens  
> when a real critical mass of users is all on a single wave. It's  
> white noise. One of the advantages of a forum is the ability to  
> ignore threads you're not interested in. Wave tries to point your  
> attention to every update.
>
> I can see some good collaborative possibilities for small teams. As  
> it exists now, I don't see it as a new paradigm or protocol to  
> replace any existing web-based communication.
>
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Samir Nassar wrote:
>
>> On 12/3/09 11:15 AM, Zachary Johnson wrote:
>>> That's interesting.  I could see a lot of demand for a unified way  
>>> to create response content on community-based websites.   
>>> Especially if you didn't have to create another user login at each  
>>> one.
>>>
>> We hear the demands for a "unified way to create response content  
>> on community-based websites" but typically the problem to be solved  
>> isn't solvable by new and improved technologies, the problems are  
>> the human process.
>>
>> No amount of technology is going to really help the problem of  
>> people not being aware of where they are logged in to, what tool is  
>> appropriate for any given communication circumstance, or basic  
>> etiquette. Technology definitely won't inject common sense into  
>> people.
>>
>> If organizations spent half as much money on technology training,  
>> real-life modeling and drafting and maintaining communications  
>> (human) standards as they did chasing after newfangled whizbangs  
>> and doodads we'd be able to spend time on technology that actually  
>> facilitates solving problems.
>>
>> That said, Google Wave is a cool doodad, very whizbangy and stuff.
>>
>> --
>> Samir Nassar
>> Web Production Assistant
>> University of Minnesota Extension
>> Extension Center for Family Development
>> 405 Coffey Hall
>> 1420 Eckles Ave
>> Saint Paul, MN 55108
>> 612-625-8668
>> <snassar.vcf>

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