[FM Discuss] the comments

[adam]

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 17:47 +1300, John Curwood wrote:
> There is some really cool comments in there, one of the great things  
> I've found with talking to people about Booki is that almost everyone  
> can see a way in which they personally could use it!
> Everyone seemed to have a different use for it, but they almost all  
> could has a use for it.

yeah from my experience i saw the same thing expressed at transmediale.
I said I spoke to 150 people but actually when I think about it the
number must be at least 300. When I explained booki to them you could
see (and many said so directly) that many were thinking about how they
could use it.

this is also good for us, not just because of potential new accounts etc
but because we kind of have a promise to live up to with booki. Booki
can be used by many people for many many things but we now need to make
it *easy* for them to do so. Booki has all the major parts of the puzzle
in place but my feeling is that they are not in the right order. We need
to get the workflows cleaned up...i think its the next major step for us
and something Aco and I will work on in the next weeks


adam



> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On 6/02/2011, at 5:26 PM, adam hyde wrote:
> 
> > hey
> >
> > i just wanted to post a few of the points that were made in the  
> > comments
> > on the Booki Drumbeat page....I found them pretty inspirational :
> >
> >
> > * "bridge between the online and physical sustainability of sharing."
> >
> > * "an education and learning environment of the future commons!"
> >
> > * "text books for education could be written collaboratively"
> >
> > * "the ability to style the book using CSS is a really powerful  
> > feature
> > [...] restyle your book depending on the audience you are reaching but
> > leave the book's content completely untouched. "
> >
> > * "a great idea to bring people and communities together to author
> > books, engaging them with their subjects and empowering them in the
> > process"
> >
> > * "booki enables myriad projects"
> >
> > * "the Web needs more coherent and longer texts to complement the
> > proliferation of votes, status updates, news items and opinion  
> > pieces. "
> >
> > * "Booki takes the familiar book format and makes it collaboratively
> > written social media."
> >
> > * "for any kind of open content, whether it's techniques of master
> > woodworkers, or oral histories for a town or neighborhood, or any text
> > where people want to collaborate to create it."
> >
> > * "Booki bakes in openness, so that sharing is the default."
> >
> > * "It enables and empowers people to publish and disseminate knowledge
> > and to adapt, remix, and augment the knowledge produced by others."
> >
> > * "I think books and printing are natural allies of the open web,
> > enabling a cool transition between screen information and offline
> > format. "
> >
> > * "By openly writing and creating printed copies, in a way that anyone
> > can easily do it, booki represents a powerful tool for education,
> > literature, guides, and open knowledge in general,"
> >
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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