Hi Michael,
I have just been pondering using wetpaint for my report forms in the
newsroom. As long as locations are wired, the reports can immediately
be uploaded real-time to the web and added to and edited by others
immediately. Wetpaint has a registration security feature (still
exploring how it works) so you could contol spammers that way:
participants or sites could be registered in advance or in the
moment. The wetpaint interface seems pretty user friendly. It would
probably call for a bit more support in the newsroom than usual, but
not much more.
I'll update as i discover more in my trials.
Cheers,
Wendy
On 2-Apr-09, at 9:54 PM, Michael Herman wrote:
here's a new one, i think. for the techies among us.
how would you capture proceedings if you were to have, say, dozens, or
even hundreds of events convened simultaneously and you wanted
everybody everywhere to be able to post their proceedings into one
central place. everybody except spammers, of course. videos can be
posted to youtube and tagged. photos to flickr. but what about the
text proceedings? and there is also the issue of a directory of event
locations. hoping this wouldn't require a dedicated
application/platform. here are some ideas.
-listserve like yahoo or google group - non-public is a downside
-facebook group - non-public is downside here too
-wiki - might be too complex for rapid scale-up
-blog - might be coolest, but might require moderation
-twitter - might there be a way to collect only the issues raised
everywhere? tagged by location, perhaps? could happen more places
cuz could send from cellphones?
-blog - could make a post or page for every event reported and then
let them post comments.
-just get everyone to start their own simple, free blog and use a blog
aggregator... might miss a lot of sites.
-google docs?
-blog with a single "guest/contributor" username and password,
publicly posted, with user only allowed to post reports, tagging for
author and location within the post?
...this last option might be best, but then we get to the question of
what if it all really works and folks wanted to post some stream of
ongoing results and actions. could happen. so the system might want
to support that.
anything else you can think of out there in social networking space
that could support such a thing?
i think i like the twitter option, but have no idea if it can be made
to function in this way. could all of this be aimed at a single
twitter name, or just tagged with a single twitter tag? and somehow
captured in a way taht was searchable and scrollable long after the
first events occured?
then there's the scenario where somehow we get to hack up a new
version of the world map <grin>.
so that's as far as i can guess, and maybe even a little past that.
thoughts?
many thanks,
m
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