Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Google Wave Available for Everyone – Google Wave Blog

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    So Google Wave finally goes public:

    "Starting today, we are making Google Wave openly available to everyone as part of Google Labs. You no longer need an invitation to wave — simply visit wave.google.com and sign right in.

    […]

    Journalism: Mashable used Wave to interview journalists on the future of journalism, and The Seattle Times experimented with a public Wave to develop their Pulitzer Prize-winning news coverage.

    […]

    If you tried Google Wave out a while ago, and found it not quite ready for real use, now is a good time to come back for a second try. Wave is much faster and much more stable than when we began the preview, and we have worked hard to make Wave easier to use. For example, you can now get email notifications when waves change, easily navigate to unread parts of a wave, and remove participants added by mistake. We have also added permission management options and an extensions gallery."

    I would prefer this technology in Google Docs, rather than separate app.

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Google Wave Finds Purpose as Live Blogging Platform – Read Write Web

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    Frederic Lardinois:

    "At first glance, this looks like a minor update, but for the first time, you can now easily embed waves on your own site. Google notes that you could use Wave for real-time RSVPs with the Yes/No/Maybe gadget and to publish documentation via embedded waves. For us, however, the real potential here is live blogging with Wave.

    The interesting thing about using Wave as a live blogging platform, of course, is that readers can see what a blogger is writing in real time. Live blogging doesn't get more real time than that.

    Wave allows users to easily style text and embed images and videos. Adding additional writers to a wave is also as easy as adding another contact to the wave."

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News organisations collaborate on climate change project – Shaping the Future of the Newspaper Blog

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    News organisations collaborate on climate change project – Shaping the Future of the Newspaper Blog

    Michelle Ong:

    "The Atlantic, Mother Jones and Wired, along with Slate, Grist, the Center for Investigative Reporting and PBS current-affairs program "Need to Know" have teamed up to launch Climate Desk, a project dedicated to exploring climate change issues.

    This collaboration represents an important step towards resolving the difficulty of covering expansive topics under dwindling resources. Climate Desk hopes to reach a combined online audience of more than 25 million monthly unique visitors, 1.5 million print readers and an expected TV audience of 1.5 viewers.

    According to the Columbia Journalism Review, Clara Jeffrey and Monika Bauerlein, co-editors of Mother Jones, the issue of climate change is the "perfect lab" for testing this wide-scale partnership model, because of its "vast and complex" nature which requires different but complementary areas of expertise."

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