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How Google Wave is Changing the News

By jlutz99

Mashable has an interesting article online about how Google Wave is changing the news.  Here's an excerpt:

Andrew Nystrom, senior producer of social media and emerging platforms at the Los Angeles Times, collaborated with social media reporter Mark Milian on the blog post ?How Google Wave Could Transform Journalism? that ran on the newspaper?s web site a couple of months ago.

Among some of the ideas listed in the post were: collaborative reporting, smarter story updates, live editing, discussing while reading, and a transparent writing process. Nystrom said in an email interview they?re looking at all the potential uses that Milian posited in the blog post. In a case of ?eating his own dogfood,? so to speak, Milian even embedded the post as a wave and it has since received more than 350 blips.

?That experiment was definitely an eye-opener. My understanding of Wave has always been that it?s a valuable tool for small-team collaboration. So to see it succeed as a larger-scale crowdsourcing tool was unexpected to say the least,? Milian said by email. ?People quickly swarmed the wave and provided a ton of really smart insights. Things we had never thought of.?

Read more here. 

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on November 23, 2009 (boomark / email).