[Imc-alternatives] DESIGN: wireframing summary

[Danyl Strype]

Kia ora koutou

Thanks so much to all of you for putting in all this work. It's so  
exciting to see the vision we've been patiently watering for so long  
start to push up shoots! Thanks to Jay for the concise summary,  
everything makes a lot of sense as you've presented it. I especially  
like the idea of having a trunk and branches of editor-determined  
taxonomy with further branches of folksonomy determined by user tagging.

I like the idea of having a huge Publish button in our design too. I  
really loved the huge Publish buttons when they first started  
appearing on some Indymedia sites and Aotearoa IMC adopted this  
convention from day one. They emphasized what made Indys different  
from most other sites of the time - that the sites were as much about  
users contributing as they were about users reading.

However, it does get me to thinking, what makes the alternatives site  
different from most other sites now? It isn't connecting or media  
sharing, as the social networking and YouTube/ Flickr-style hosting  
sites have thoroughly mainstreamed that.

The central difference to me is that the site specifically aims to  
change not only what happens in cyberspace, but what happens in the  
social and biological world outside the internet. We want the  
information it aggregates, and the networks it facilitates, to change  
the way people *act* - to inform the decisions they made as  
individuals, and open new possibilities for organizing with others to  
meet their needs (from water and food, right up to self-realization).  
So let's say we had an 'Act' button as part of the navigation - what  
would it link to?

Just some scattershot thoughts as I bounce around the country. Keep up  
the great work everyone.

Love and Rage
Strypes

Quoting Jay <jay at fundamentalchange.net>:

> Hi imc-alternatives,
>
> Over the last few weeks Nick, Michael and I have been working really
> hard to develop wireframes for the alternatives site.  (what are
> wireframes? http://www.grokdotcom.com/wireframing.htm).  In the
> process we've been talking through a lot of basic questions about how
> the site will work and how people will use it.  At the last IRC
> meeting I volunteered to write a summary of our discussions.




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