[Imc-alternatives] DESIGN: wireframing summary

[Jay]

Strypey,

I like the idea of "Act" rather than "Publish!"  We've been trying to 
come up with a better word than Publish.  "Contribute" seems pretty 
clunky....  Clicking on Act/Publish/Contribute would enable you to 
publish news to the newswire, post an article to the knowledge-base 
or join the networking section, and maybe more.

Jay

At 5/23/2008, Danyl Strype wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
>
>--
>"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
>- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr
>
>"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and
>those who matter don't mind."
>- Dr Suess
>
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