Google Wave?

[Alan Johnson]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>wrote:

> > ... a large group
> > of people could collaborate on a single document in real time....
>
>  That might work.  I'm not sure how well it would lend itself to a
> large, structured document, though.  No real outline/heading system,
> no ability to hide/zoom on things.
>

This makes me think: since people who know things are often not the same
people who know how to present things, you could have presentations trolls
formatting a document while the word bulimics continue to spew, oh and
another parallel set of graphics whores, etc.


>
> > It could better enable remote participation, but I don't imagine the Wave
> > interface applies well to coding.  Does it?
>
>   Well, it's basically just a text area, so I suppose you could use it
> that way.  And adding syntax highlighting should be fairly
> straight-forward.
>

As Adam Johnson just pointed out at lunch, the syntax highlight might get
tricky when the entire document below the opening and closing of quotes
changes colors. =)


>
> > Oo, oh, or legislatures working on draft legislation might be a good
> > specific example.
>
>   There's no facility for parliamentary procedure.  HHOS.
>

Ah, but drafting does not require it... I think... nah, it couldn't.
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