{"id":967,"date":"2009-11-15T14:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2011-12-31T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T13:38:57","slug":"wave-mostly-a-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/15\/wave-mostly-a-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave: mostly a rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on Google Wave for about a week and a half. So far I only have things to complain about.<\/p>\n<p>I watched, with rapt fascination, the hour-long intro video ((oops&#8211;make that 1:20!)) back in May. Though video is usually something I consume for entertainment, not information.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v_UyVmITiYQ&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v_UyVmITiYQ&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So it may be that my hopes were too high. Given that Wave is a &#8216;preview&#8217; (is that one level below beta?), there&#8217;s still hope for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Things I don&#8217;t like about wave:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new stuff isn&#8217;t always at the bottom, and &#8216;diff&#8217; is a video<\/li>\n<li>I have to add my own contacts all over again, and they&#8217;ve got new &#8220;email&#8221; addresses<\/li>\n<li>Closed system&#8211;so I can&#8217;t communicate with just anybody<\/li>\n<li>Feels very slow<\/li>\n<li>Need to click to edit&#8211;yet I&#8217;m still always creating errant blank notes<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t tell what I can edit and what I can&#8217;t<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the etiquette? ((For instance, I *am* going to delete blips and extraneous comments to make things easier to follow. In a wiki this would be expected. In my own inbox it&#8217;s up to me. But in a public listserv conversation it&#8217;s verboten, except perhaps for spam deletion.))<\/li>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t separate content and discussion<\/li>\n<li>Waves with lots of people get really long really quickly<\/li>\n<li>Other maintenance&#8211;like, I guess I&#8217;m supposed to add a picture for myself?<\/li>\n<li>The &#8216;inbox&#8217; is really a list of things I&#8217;m paying attention to. &#8216;inbox&#8217; seems a misnomer.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t subscribe to wave alerts via email (e.g. if I haven&#8217;t logged in in some amount of time, remind me by email that I might want to)<\/li>\n<li>Those damn arrows! I DON&#8217;T WANT TO SCROLL!!!!!<\/li>\n<li>I want a list of bots, and to add a bot by clicking a button.<\/li>\n<li>I want a &#8216;make this public&#8217; button, rather than having to scramble for an email address to add.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about wave, check <a href=\"http:\/\/wave.google.com\/help\/wave\/about.html\">Google&#8217;s About pages<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_wave\">Wikipedia&#8217;s overview<\/a>, or the in-progress wiki aiming to <a href=\"http:\/\/completewaveguide.com\/\">The Complete Guide to Google Wave<\/a>. At the moment, I&#8217;ve still got a few invites to give away, if you&#8217;d like to try it out for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m struck by the length and lack of summarization in Wave. One of the reasons I keep using gmail is that it (often but not always) helps me to keep track of the conversation. Wave doesn&#8217;t do that right now: the &#8216;preview&#8217; or subject line just pulls from the first blip. (Even just pulling from the latest blip would help!)<\/p>\n<p>I have a few active collaborations in Wave (SIOC, the &#8216;unofficial code4lib conference wave&#8217;, and a small advertising\/new media conversation we&#8217;re testing moving from email). Perhaps as time goes on I&#8217;ll have a better understanding of what it&#8217;s good for in practice. Meanwhile, I welcome pointers to others&#8217; experiences, especially easy-to-digest tips about how you&#8217;re using Wave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on Google Wave for about a week and a half. So far I only have things to complain about. I watched, with rapt fascination, the hour-long intro video ((oops&#8211;make that 1:20!)) back in May. Though video is usually something I consume for entertainment, not information. 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