Garrick van Buren – Page 29 – About time. And product. And being more deliberate.

Motorized

Inbox as Identity

Some of my best friends

In order to get the attention of a Realboy’s community, we decided that the Realboy should tweet about the topics that are important to the community. In order to avoid having to worry about natural language parsing and sentence construction, we decided to simply duplicate tweets about these important topics. We decided to let each Realboy automatically tweet every so many hours, and start friending several community members at a time after building up a small history of tweets.

What if the function of a local newspaper was…

…to create and maintain digital production and distribution tools for an audience to inform itself?

“Content production tools scale. Social media tools scale. Topical communities can scale (depending on the topic). Local news does not scale.” – Robert Niles

Yea.

“Whatever happened to accountability” – anonymous

Twitchy

“I wasn’t really GETTING anything from real time access to my performance data, except the stress of being aware of every time we had a temporary dip below the median performance (which, statistically, occurs uh… 50% of the time).”

“Compounding my error, I actually now have the ability to ACT on this half-baked version of the truth. While theoretically useful, in practice, I’m losing the ‘cooling off’ period that my desktop-based process required… Using my hyperkinetic real time system, I could shoot myself in the foot at warp speed.” – marginhound

Deliberate

“When I was young the thought of going slow never occurred to me. But I learned that sometimes you have to slow down to go really fast. Seems paradoxical. But you can’t make good design decisions until you’re thoroughly familiar with a tool. And when you go too fast you have to live with the bad decisions for a very long time.” – Dave Winer

Links are the Killer App

“I may be wrong but it looks like Google’s fear of the mobile ecosystem – that apps cannot be crawled, indexed and searched for may be an overreaction. It is precisely because apps cannot be crawled, indexed and searched for, the mobile application ecosystem’s expansion will be limited – mobile app discovery will continue to rely on the web. Apps are isolated and cannot link to a particular state of another app. No links, no network effects. The expansion of the app ecosystem is currently limited by the number of apps in the market; With each new app in the market users will require more time to search for a suitable app. More websites, however, actually encourages even more websites, due to linking and references between all the websites; More websites enable users to discover faster the website they derive the most value out of (due to linking). More mobile applications, on the other hand, do not.” – meric

“When you start anthropomorphizing an electronic gizmo…”

“When you start anthropomorphizing an electronic gizmo, maybe its time to go outside and get some fresh air. Just a thought.” – tyson jennings

“It’s all news to someone”

“So let’s call this the newsonomics of the shiny new wrapper, a movement that is allowing editors, publishers, broadcasters and marketers to reimagine what (and how) they can offer to long-time and would-be readers.” – Ken Doctor

This is the space where my most interesting and most recent conversations are occurring.

I see a huge opportunity for publishers to repackage their existing assets in meaningful ways. Ways that add ongoing value to readers. Ways that really highlight existing expertise across a multitude of channels that were historically very challenging to pursue.