Sure, it’s a little too much like FriendFeed etc, but I couldn’t have had this conversation on most other platforms…

Google+ Thread on Teachers Taking Risks

This does two things for me…

1) Backs up my assertions that blog comments are silos that don’t spread and/or invite conversation, so we need to move off the idea that a blog has to have comments enabled (hence my choice here). If you want to respond to me, do so on Google+ or Twitter or FB or even on your own blog since that is your space to write.

2) Google+ is maturing as a platform, at least for educators. There’s already a good number of teachers, admins and edu thinkers over there and I get invited to add more and more folks to my circles every day. I haven’t seen this type of growth for niche communities before in a social network (and I’ve joined most everyone of them since we started calling them social networks).

Time will tell, but Google+ seems to have legs on the conversational front.