This might help you to remove yourself from the CSS-DEV list: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSS-DEV Charlot Meyer wrote: > 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> -- Karoline Dehnhard Web Designer 272 Appleby Hall University of Minnesota (612)625-2906