---
title: 'Why I Want Google Wave NOW, Please'
date: '2009-07-03T10:22:31-04:00'
permalink: /why-i-want-google-wave-now-please/
tags:
    - internets
    - twitter
---

Because I had a rather amazing exchange about the future of open access publishing via Twitter last night with Brett Bobley ([@brettbobley](http://twitter.com/brettbobley)), Dan Cohen ([@dancohen](http://twitter.com/dancohen)), and Steve Ramsay ([@sramsay](http://twitter.com/sramsay)), and unless you were following all three of us, you probably missed it. And I’d love to repost it here, but that would mean a lot of manual cutting and pasting, attempting to rebuild the thread out of last night’s stream. From what I can tell, [Google Wave](http://wave.google.com) will cluster that stream for me, and allow me to embed it here directly, where, should you choose to join in the conversation, it’ll self-update.

I want all the many conversations that I have, at various levels and on various platforms, to become visible to me as conversations, and to be repurposable as various kinds of publications. And I hope I’m not being over-optimistic in anticipating that Google Wave will make a good bit of that possible.