Who owns conversations? And what are the rules?
Before you get too far into this, I've also published this post to Google Wave at this link if you'd like to read along there instead.
Using Google Wave heavily over the past several weeks has really gotten my mental gears cranking, pondering all of the changes coming down the pike in the next year or so.
One of the things that I'm really trying to wrap my head around is how a medium like a wave changes the dynamic of the interaction between the publisher of a post and the observers and other participants. In a wave it's possible for anyone to edit the original text or insert comments directly inline--this is a pretty big departure from the way most messaging platforms work. For example in this blog post you can't edit what I've already written, and you can't insert your comments directly in the middle, but you can leave comments at the bottom. In a wave you don't have those restrictions.
