One thing I hated about writing a book was knowing that the information I was putting down hot and current very well might not be so hot or current when it got into a reader’s hands. I think the test of time has actually been better to my content that I had first imagined, but then there’s Lifehackers Tripani and Dash who have set about to write their book using a wiki.
The Complete Guide to Google Wave is both a book you can buy, and a wiki you can use online. Furthermore, they want the book to stay current, which (don’t they know?) could be a full time job! But they aren’t necessarily dumb: they’ve invited the “users”/readers of their book to contribute to the wiki.
It’s an experiment of sorts for sure, but I think it looks great and we need examples like this to build off in the educational sphere. Don’t you agree?
Of course, this says nothing of the cool tool that Wave is emerging to be. But that’s for another post down the road.