Recap of Hacks/Hackers goes to Google: Wave and journalism

Thanks to all who turned out at Google for our event on Wave and journalism.

If you weren’t able to make it, the archived livestream of the event is embedded below (two videos). There’s lots of info there about the concepts behind Wave as well as demonstrations of typical workflows.

"It took Twitter months to get the 1 verb of its product into the popular lexicon. Wave has a whole new vocabulary!" -Andrew Fitzgerald

Wave is incredibly complex. As member Andrew Fitzgerald Tweeted during the session, “It took Twitter months to get the 1 verb of its product into the popular lexicon. Wave has a whole new vocabulary!” There are blips, robots, gadgets and more. It’s an entirely new paradigm of communication that the Wave team hopes will become a new universal inbox.

I would have liked to spend a bit more time exploring potential uses for journalism, but all the features and explanation meant much of the session was occupied by reviewing the capabilities of Wave.

If you want to view the Wave with notes from the presentation, go to this link. Also, here’s a blog post from Joey Baker with his reflections and notes on what happened.

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  • http://mattbaume.com/ mattymatt

    It was interesting to really go under the hood and see all the little dials and gizmos and things. I wonder, though, if that might be a turnoff for reporters, who work fast and need things to be as simple as possible?

    For example, at the press conference that I went to yesterday with the mayor, most of the print reporters had a simple voice recorder, or a pad of paper and pen. But the reporters from TV stations needed a dedicated videographer with them to work the camera. It seems like reporters expect to have a trained technician for anything more complicated than a voice recorder.

    I mocked up a few ways that Wave could be made a little more neophyte-friendly here: http://www.writersgettingpaid.mattbaume.com/cha…