Because I had a rather amazing exchange about the future of open access publishing via Twitter last night with Brett Bobley (@brettbobley), Dan Cohen (@dancohen), and Steve Ramsay (@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 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.

• @chutry: gah! This year, I’m chairing a panel on the 29th at 1.45pm, which feels like primetime. Last year’s panel was during lunch. #

• Watching Gustav bearing down on the fam. Not happy about it. #

• @ghw_twits: Thanks! That’s a serious vote of confidence. Now I just have to get it written. #

• @ghw_twits: only a little. It is online (http://www.mlajournals.org/loi/pmla — inst. access required), but the accusation still bears out. #

• Having to get the car smogged so I can renew my registration for which I am paying a $15 late fee because the DMV didn’t correct my address. #
• And no, iPhone autocorrect, I did not mean slogged. #

• @mkirschenbaum @nowviskie: he spent last year with us; we’re really going to miss him. #

• From the window of our landing plane, California sure looked… brown. #

• Off plane in Houston. How utterly bizarre it is to be surrounded by people speaking English. #
• I liked being able to tune out most of the chatter around me. My French is good enough for eavesdropping but not for passive bombardment. #
• @bighandsome: I thought it was a bit crowded in here… #
• The upside is a return to unlimited iPhone data usage. Yes, I’m looking for anything. #

• @mkirschenbaum: Well, you know, there’s sensitive information in there! I mean, if it fell into just anyone’s hands… #