Showing posts with label halfbaked. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halfbaked. Show all posts

Friday, February 27, 2009

Some more ideas for getting organized

 I've been exploring the concept of continuous conversation, and I've tried the trick of a two way conversation across two previously unconnected points. I've noticed that it's hard to get people to sign up for a new service with no guarantee of success, so that's led me to trick number two.

It occurred to me, that on the internet, you could easily eliminate a post entirely and create a new one in its place. Theoretically, any conversation could be carried over from one place to another and eliminated from it's original location, effectively transplanted to somewhere new.

If somebody were to try this trick with multiple conversations, several could be merged into a single site from a multitude of other sites on the web. That could potentially allow for a web community to form while it's being promoted.

This idea will have to be explored some more.

Monday, February 23, 2009

First of many half-baked ideas: an RSS feed

You've read the title, now you're probably wondering exactly what we'd use an RSS feed for in particular. It's another web term which I've often heard used, but until now I hadn't realized exactly what it was, or how one could be used. Here are some ideas of ways that we may end up using them in the future:

An RSS feed would mean that we could organize a large number of sites, put them all on a form requesting updates, and have all updates be given not just to the sender, but to everybody on the list.

If the person who created the feed wrote their own page into the feed, that would mean that a self aware network would be created.

This is a huge development!

Humor me while I go off on a slight tangent, and start to piece together a few minor pieces of trivia:

We have a YouTube group to gather fan interest.
Archive.org allows for fans to submit a petition.
Netflix allows films to be suggested for inclusion in their library. (I can't find the web link right now, sadly)
Netflix has a lists system which allows for titles to be discovered.
Netflix has an unofficial community where fans can discuss their tastes.
New popular animated films from Europe have a large amount of support, but fans have to wait a long time for them to be dubbed.
A 2 way RSS feed would allow for immediate updates to a large group of people on one subject.

We now have discovered a small but reliable loop of self perpetuating interest, now follow along with me.

We find sites full of fans for new releases and put the sites on an RSS feed to look for interest. We direct their attention to the Euranimate group on YouTube. We petition for the release of more films by directing people to Archive.org from our YouTube group. To ensure their availability, we ensure that Netflix will stock the titles. Members will put titles they enjoy on their YouTube lists for others to find. Hardcore animation fans on Netflix will talk about the titles, and intrigued friends can be directed to the YouTube group.

It's a small start, but it reminds us of something that we can do right now, if we can just get somebody websmart to create an RSS feed.

First things first though, I've become inspired for a way to get this project going at both the IMDb and the YouTube group.