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Google Wave vs Twitter at conferences
- jlees 17y agoThe idea of collaboratively editing a session transcript and backchanneling in real-time actually hadn't occurred to me. Genius. I see two major flaws: provision of reliable Internet access at conferences is still Not Done Well; and the drawbacks of the current Wave UI implementation do not really encourage this sort of thing. (Oh, and trolling, yeah.) I mean, we could have collaborative transcript wikis at conferences already, right? Add Twitter and what value does Wave really provide, especially given the discoverability problem? Why don't we have transcript wikis? Perhaps that is something to address first. I'd like to see (and wish I had time to create) a universal backchannel solution and this is certainly one platform that could well be worked in, but you gotta get over that offline barrier somehow.
- jauer 17y agoThis looks very similar to the way SubEthaEdit/Gobby have been used at conferences for distributed note taking for the past several years.
- jamesbritt 17y ago"Twitter has quickly become the must-have channel for conference back-chat." I don't see how this improves on IRC. I'd really rather see more people turn off their machines during talk and, you know, just pay attention to the human right there on stage. Lately I've been using pen and paper to take notes, keeping the laptop closed. I come away with much greater retention (no need to fight the urge to code just one more feature), and no need to scurry for a seat next to a power source.