What josh said :) Zephyr Teachout Internet Organizing & Outreach Dean for America [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meetup at http://www.deanforamerica.com/meetup Get local at http://action.deanforamerica.com Contribute at http://www.deanforamerica.com/contribute
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Koenig Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:03 PM To: Aldon Hynes Cc: Zephyr Teachout; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hackers] Draft Deanster Design Doc > Independent of the terminology, I believe it is crucial > for any sort of online community building tool to facilitate > interaction > between the users above and beyond merely listing information. I am > concerned from what I am hearing, that such functionality seems to be > missing from 'Deanster' and I feel that needs to be addressed. What you see now is an attempt at a first iteration of this service. I find the three-step development methodology of "crawl, walk, run" to generally be helpful. Right now all the campaign has is a bank of email addresses and no way to connect them. Step one is to let people put a face to the name, seek each other out and make connections. Step two will be allowing them to express themselves a little more through the system. Step three will be layering on the xpertweb tools to handle reputation and tasks. > It may be that it is best addressed by avoiding too strong a > bifurcation > between 'Deanster' and 'DeanSpace'. Indeed. When it comes to creating voluminous content and original forms of expression, we need to trust that people will find a place for that in the wider deanspace (or just online in general), and can link to that via their profile. This is the same as how I link to my own blog from my ryze profile. > P.S. Personally, I think the Friendster UI sucks. Different strokes for different folks I suppose. The layout on Ryze is highly overcrowded and chaotic to my eye. Friendster is a lot more simple. cheers -j
