Mark Milian has quickly waded in --- bad pun intended --- to understand the impact of Google Wave on the craft of journalism, and he has some interesting initial thoughts.
Milian was one of 100,000 who received an invitation to play with the new tool, and he posits a few influence possibilities: collaborative reporting, better archiving of interviews, live editing, smarter updates, instant polls and discussions, a transparent writing process and aggregation potential.
In the days, weeks and months ahead it will be up to newsrooms to employ the tool, which at first blush appears highly flexible for creativity of all sorts. As a business tool it seems ideally suited to collaboration, and as a dashboard for creativity it seems possibly transformative.
Milian was one of 100,000 who received an invitation to play with the new tool, and he posits a few influence possibilities: collaborative reporting, better archiving of interviews, live editing, smarter updates, instant polls and discussions, a transparent writing process and aggregation potential.
In the days, weeks and months ahead it will be up to newsrooms to employ the tool, which at first blush appears highly flexible for creativity of all sorts. As a business tool it seems ideally suited to collaboration, and as a dashboard for creativity it seems possibly transformative.
