The 3rd Dimension of Collaboration

I just had one of those strange moments - often rare when you reside in a distant part of the southern hemisphere - where I'm conversing indirectly with another blogger, in this case JP Rangaswami about my last post.

I wonder, is it time to expand our classic two dimensions of collaboration (synchronous and asynchronous) to include a third? I'm not sure what to call this new dimension, but two suitable computer geek terms to position its two extremes might be serial and parallel. The blogosphere at its best is when we are talking at the same time, but to each other at the same time...

Tags: blogging, collaboration, social+software