A friend and I have done some collaborative writing. Mostly it's in a set of Google docs files that we work on at different times, with conversation happening sporadically in IM. It would be nice to have that stuff all together. It would also be nice if we had more plot, because neither of us is too good at that.
Another friend and I were co-administering a fan fund for a con. We had a spreadsheet Google-doc that we both kept updating, and then there was something odd (an almost-tie) that we had to discuss, and we had to do that some other way.
The only IM thing that I belong to where you can have a real-time conversation including lots of people is MSN, but mostly the cool people aren't on MSN. Sometimes I like to share photos with someone I'm IMing with - that usually works okay on Trillian/AIM, but it doesn't save the picture with the chat transcript.
On Google Docs I made a list of things one houseguest could help with, and kept updating it. I also looked up stuff like how to get to the train station from downtown and kept sending him links in email or IM. I'm now going to find a way to share the relevant bits of that with my next houseguest - maybe it should be a document I could keep updating for anyone who comes to stay. I bet Google Wave would help.
Other things that I want that I don't think Google Wave will help with: I want to be able to import my text-message conversations into my computer, so I can re-read, search, and share the funny bits. I want to be able to do EVERYTHING on my telephone. Fast. I want to have a nap. I want all my IM archives to be in the same place. (I have lots of conversations with Google Talk, which currently isn't working with Trillian.) I want better course websites, painlessly, and my files on a server and easy to find even when my students don't have access to them. And did I mention the nap?
I thought of another thing. I have Google Calendars shared with TAs for stuff happening on different courses. But we have the conversations about them in e-mail.
It sounds like you might know it well enough that you could give me a tutorial on it--is that right? I just feel kind of intimidated by it at the moment. I'd really appreciate it if sometime we could sit in the same room and you could just show me cool features of it, because it looks like I might have to teach it to my co-researchers.
Another friend and I were co-administering a fan fund for a con. We had a spreadsheet Google-doc that we both kept updating, and then there was something odd (an almost-tie) that we had to discuss, and we had to do that some other way.
The only IM thing that I belong to where you can have a real-time conversation including lots of people is MSN, but mostly the cool people aren't on MSN. Sometimes I like to share photos with someone I'm IMing with - that usually works okay on Trillian/AIM, but it doesn't save the picture with the chat transcript.
On Google Docs I made a list of things one houseguest could help with, and kept updating it. I also looked up stuff like how to get to the train station from downtown and kept sending him links in email or IM. I'm now going to find a way to share the relevant bits of that with my next houseguest - maybe it should be a document I could keep updating for anyone who comes to stay. I bet Google Wave would help.
Other things that I want that I don't think Google Wave will help with:
I want to be able to import my text-message conversations into my computer, so I can re-read, search, and share the funny bits.
I want to be able to do EVERYTHING on my telephone. Fast.
I want to have a nap.
I want all my IM archives to be in the same place. (I have lots of conversations with Google Talk, which currently isn't working with Trillian.)
I want better course websites, painlessly, and my files on a server and easy to find even when my students don't have access to them.
And did I mention the nap?
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It sounds like you might know it well enough that you could give me a tutorial on it--is that right? I just feel kind of intimidated by it at the moment. I'd really appreciate it if sometime we could sit in the same room and you could just show me cool features of it, because it looks like I might have to teach it to my co-researchers.
-J
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