http://effectivecio.com/2009/12/02/way-too-much-information/ ...ruminations on many things, all ultimately related to effective IT leadership... Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:44:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://effectivecio.com/2009/12/02/way-too-much-information/#comment-1173 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:49:33 +0000 http://effectivecio.com/?p=1531#comment-1173 I am still getting used to Wave and am trying to understand how it can be applied usefully for variety of activities. I do not mind people seeing me composing and changing my mind on an idea but it is difficult to follow someone else’s train of thought PLUS that problem of responding to someones text to see it vanish and then having the dialog get out of phase are problems for me.
One night I participated in a public wave with a dozen participants. I had started with one person that I knew and we were doing the familiar IM back and forth when strangers started dropping into the wave and joining the conversation. It started to become more of a chat room on steroids. I found it difficult to keep track of what was going on since parallel conversations were taking place and people were amending/editing parts of the wave upstream of where I was. Whew!
We are used to a set of protocols (Twitter, IM, email, blogs etc) and Wave combines these in weird ways.
I would like to see small teams collaborating within and without a company using Wave on a project as a real test.
By the way here is a good book on Wave http://completewaveguide.com/
And if anyone wants to connect with me in the Wave I am john.mc.baker@googlewave.com

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