On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 05:03:19PM +1200, Ben Campbell wrote:
> >3) The browser extension is really cool, will definitely take this site
> >from being a curiosity to a routine tool
>
> Yep. Ultimately, I plan to do an extension to pulling in data from
> all sorts of other sources. A kind of all-seeing-eye-of-news :-)
At least amongst my Twitter followers, the basic concept of the
browser extension ("automatically tells you sources of bad newspaper
articles") was *extremely* popular. Most retweeted thing I've written
for weeks.
More so than worthily asking people to mark up sources which is what I
tried first :) So I think recruiting lots of consumers of the plugin,
and then using that to upsell the really keen ones who will mark up is
way to go...
I can imagine a toolbar popping up at the top of articles, similar to
the Google Chrome one that says the page is in another language.
"This article looks like it is about a scientific paper, but we don't
know which one yet. Click here if it isn't really about a
scientific paper, or click here and we'll help you find the
paper."
Again, make it selfish ("help you find the paper") rather than worthy.
Oh, and my experience from TheyWorkForYou video and WhatDoTheyKnow
status markup, is you need two league tables - best this week, and all
time best. (The best this week gives everyone a chance of getting on
it, the all time best gives you a new goal once you've won best this
week). And they really do work.
Finally you NEED to get Abi Broom addicted to this :)
Well done, even that old grumpy Julian Todd was excited when I told
him about this yesterday,
Francis
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