Interesting story about persuasive technology: http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/08/07/facebook/index.html Journalists could think more about these issues. Other people/industries are making massive investments in studying and producing what attracts people actively. Journalists produce what their editors like. Or what drives page views. More deliberation and understanding of what and how people interact and use civic information — and what ...
At my lunch with the developer yesterday, he said he wants to make a news site that has two home pages. One is like google’s home page but only for the s ite so people who drilldown can do so with no interruptions. And a My Homepage for people who like to browse. Ingenius. ...
You have a lot of rich material here to think about. We should just call it a seminar and both get credit for it. All I can do at the moment is react and keep thinking about it. First, (let’s give Nick the nod and just call him a genius) Wikipedia is definitely a network, ...
Mike, I like your paper very much. I don’t think you should make a choice between social networking and a design career. One of the things that is dooming many of the advanced social networking/Web 2.0 applications for journalists is that they are so ugly and clunky (think Ning, Drupal, etc.). We haven’t yet designed ...
That’s an interesting statement: “I want to see how many people will be driven to the site without a journalist.” Isn’t it marketing that drives most people to a site? Your pitch is a marketing call, not a journalistic one. The best way to make it bigger than Soup is to write about it in ...