Google Wave as a Publishing Tool
October 12, 2009
Yep, sooner or later someone was going to realize that Google Wave is a component of the “digital Gutenberg”. If you want to read the breathless prose of a professional journalist, navigate to “Exploring Google Wave – How Could It Transform Journalism and Publishing?” My reaction to the write up is that, like most Google analyses, the comparisons are based on what is familiar, comfortable. Google Wave is one component of a larger data management capability. Publishing will not be transformed. The Google platform creates a way to push beyond what’s familiar and comfortable. That’s going to be deeply disturbing and disruptive across a number of information centric business sectors. Wave is a subsystem. The real powerhouse is the Google data management system. We need a new term to describe what this platform makes possible. “Publishing” does not carry the freight of meaning in my opinion.
Stephen Arnold, October 12, 2009
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