One hundred thousand users were given invitations toGoogle Wave the next new social media tool that has gotten lots of attention on how it will affect journalism and change the way journalists do their job.
Just asTwitter is a tool for journalism, Google Wave will be at the forefront of conversation until everyone has had their crack on it. Stephanie Hannon, a project manager for Google Wave, said that it is definitely a tool journalists can use to collaborate with others and that a revision history tool will soon become available to look back at any moment that was published on the web.
Los Angeles Times had a lot of helpful comments on the ways that Google Wave might change journalism, such as introducing live editing, increasing transparency in the reporting process and being able to participate in conversations as you’re reading and potentially creating instant polling.
Another interestin idea is being able to have a virtual forum where witnesses and reporters can share and contribute news and photos in one frame.
Since the invites are rare, even if you get one you are only allowed to send it to eight other people, so the hype over this new tool is going to last awhile.
What do you think? Do you think Google Wave will change journalism?
http://wave.google.com/
But don’t you think that this Google Wave would serve its purpose better if it would be accessible to as much journalists as possible?
But ok i got the point of trying to be a tool for “elite” members cause on the other hand being acessible to everyone would bring a lot of “trash” and no more quality reporting.