Comments on: Social Source Commotion http://techcafeteria.com/blog/2007/04/25/social-source-commotion/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Peter Campbell http://techcafeteria.com/blog/2007/04/25/social-source-commotion/comment-page-1/#comment-650 Peter Campbell Tue, 08 May 2007 17:51:44 +0000 http://blog.krazy.com/2007/04/25/social-source-commotion/#comment-650 Gunner - I think bookmarklets are always handy. But something else to think about is trackbacks -- assuming we build a context community around SSC, and remove the need for SSC to build, market and moderate it's own community, it could centralize and facilitate the discussion by adding links to discussion pieces to the software entry at SSC. I don't know if there's a way to automate this. I mean, there are ways, but I haven't thought them out all that well -- certainly having an SSC convention for tagging blog entries could work the same way that the nptech tag is now a linkable research point, as I do with <a rel="nofollow" href="http://nptech.info">nptech.info</a>. More food for thought. Aspiration's name is now indelibly noted. :-) Beth - I am now looking at nptech.info and wondering if it can be positioned as middleware. Since Drupal only offers rss feeds to contributed content, I hacked it and set up my own rss feeds for the three aggregator categories for community blogs, tagged information, and general tech news -- http://nptech.info/nptech_blogs.xml, http://nptech.info/nptech_tagged.xml and http://nptech.info/nptech_general.xml, respectively. To see how this works, just look at <a rel="nofollow" href="/">my home page</a>. this is pretty cool - an enhanced blogroll. Instead of linking to <a href="http://beth.typepad.com/">beth.typepad.com</a>, I link directly to your latest entries. So, since I have this database of strategic non-profit technology thoughts and info, how can the world use it, and how should I deliver it? RSS is a no-brainer. What else could we do? Gunner – I think bookmarklets are always handy. But something else to think about is trackbacks—assuming we build a context community around SSC, and remove the need for SSC to build, market and moderate it’s own community, it could centralize and facilitate the discussion by adding links to discussion pieces to the software entry at SSC. I don’t know if there’s a way to automate this. I mean, there are ways, but I haven’t thought them out all that well—certainly having an SSC convention for tagging blog entries could work the same way that the nptech tag is now a linkable research point, as I do with nptech.info. More food for thought.

Aspiration’s name is now indelibly noted. :-)

Beth – I am now looking at nptech.info and wondering if it can be positioned as middleware. Since Drupal only offers rss feeds to contributed content, I hacked it and set up my own rss feeds for the three aggregator categories for community blogs, tagged information, and general tech news—http://nptech.info/nptech_blogs.xml, http://nptech.info/nptech_tagged.xml and http://nptech.info/nptech_general.xml, respectively. To see how this works, just look at my home page. this is pretty cool – an enhanced blogroll. Instead of linking to beth.typepad.com, I link directly to your latest entries.

So, since I have this database of strategic non-profit technology thoughts and info, how can the world use it, and how should I deliver it? RSS is a no-brainer. What else could we do?

]]> By: Beth http://techcafeteria.com/blog/2007/04/25/social-source-commotion/comment-page-1/#comment-647 Beth Fri, 04 May 2007 19:37:53 +0000 http://blog.krazy.com/2007/04/25/social-source-commotion/#comment-647 I had a chance to beta test the tool remotely and screencasted my test http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8523551201046500012 Your question re: audience is a good one. I wonder if the technique of pivot browsing - which ssc uses - will become more mainstreamed in nonprofits as more and more tag based systems become more mainstreamed? And, if the interface is for the geeks - how does the translation happen. I had a chance to beta test the tool remotely and screencasted my test
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8523551201046500012

Your question re: audience is a good one. I wonder if the technique of pivot browsing – which ssc uses – will become more mainstreamed in nonprofits as more and more tag based systems become more mainstreamed?

And, if the interface is for the geeks – how does the translation happen.

]]> By: gunner http://techcafeteria.com/blog/2007/04/25/social-source-commotion/comment-page-1/#comment-646 gunner Wed, 02 May 2007 01:27:31 +0000 http://blog.krazy.com/2007/04/25/social-source-commotion/#comment-646 Peter, Thanks for such an insightful summary of our call, and your reflections on the evolution of SSC. We're absolutely committed to creating the middleware you describe, and I look forward to working with you and the rest of the advisory group to author and animate those. Also, as mentioned in our discussion, the other place we're looking for use case is ideas is how layer "collaborative" features on top of the existing data grid, a la flickr mail and LinkedIn.com's "ask a question" feature. While that won't directly address all the context issues you describe, it will certainly create substantial value-add (and hopefully community :^) on top of the data grid. How valuable do you think bookmarklets would be in our offering, "Send to SSC" akin to "Sub to bloglines"? Another place we're trying to generate collaboration is on the contribution front (more good stuff going in = more value for middleware), so I'm curious if you think that's the path, or not. Oh, and on the "nit" front, we go by "Aspiration" rather than "Aspiration Tech" in spite of what our domain name says :^) thanks & peace gunner Peter,

Thanks for such an insightful summary of our call, and your reflections on the evolution of SSC.

We’re absolutely committed to creating the middleware you describe, and I look forward to working with you and the rest of the advisory group to author and animate those.

Also, as mentioned in our discussion, the other place we’re looking for use case is ideas is how layer “collaborative” features on top of the existing data grid, a la flickr mail and LinkedIn.com’s “ask a question” feature. While that won’t directly address all the context issues you describe, it will certainly create substantial value-add (and hopefully community :^) on top of the data grid.

How valuable do you think bookmarklets would be in our offering, “Send to SSC” akin to “Sub to bloglines”? Another place we’re trying to generate collaboration is on the contribution front (more good stuff going in = more value for middleware), so I’m curious if you think that’s the path, or not.

Oh, and on the “nit” front, we go by “Aspiration” rather than “Aspiration Tech” in spite of what our domain name says :^)

thanks & peace
gunner

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