Could be groupware. Now, what happened to Groove?

@Robin How generous of you to send more great resources my way! The Chronicle Review article, and now these great links. Can’t wait to chase them down. There is a “grokking” involved here, even to get to the place we can judge whether there’s a “here” here. I remember how puzzled I was the first time I tried to grok “labels” in gmail. I wanted folders. I probably still want folders. But labels are more like tags, and ultimately tags are more useful than folders, because they not only acknowledge but leverage the fundamental linked-ness of the Web. I note with interest that tags play a part in Wave as well. And I think the developers may have some stuff up their sleeves that will help the grokking. Or perhaps not. Google’s got tremendous benefit-of-doubt goodwill built up, but sometimes even great Homer nods…. Still, there’s something deep in terms of tagging, collaborating, archiving, sharing, etc. that’s just over the horizon. Something I can sense more than I can see. It’ll be fraught–obviously–but it will also be tremendously exciting. Something like the day I discovered what a trackback was, and that blogs generated them automagically. A new vista of what communication and distributed conversation could mean. Whatever happens with Wave, I think they’re on the right track.

@Jim The real test for me will be to see what my students can make of it, though as always I’ll have to be making something of it first, at least on some level. They’ll have to see that it matters to me what they discover, and they won’t believe it matters unless I’m in the Wave too. So more “being there” to come!

Glad to see your volume turned up, btw… I’ve been missing your blogging.