global proceedings aggregator?

[Wendy Farmer-O'Neil]

Hi Michael,

I have just been pondering using wetpaint for my report forms in the  
newsroom.  As long as locations are wired, the reports can immediately  
be uploaded real-time to the web and added to and edited by others  
immediately.  Wetpaint has a registration security feature (still  
exploring how it works) so you could contol spammers that way:  
participants or sites could be registered in advance or in the  
moment.  The wetpaint interface seems pretty user friendly.  It would  
probably call for a bit more support in the newsroom than usual, but  
not much more.
I'll update as i discover more in my trials.

Cheers,
Wendy
On 2-Apr-09, at 9:54 PM, Michael Herman wrote:

> here's a new one, i think.  for the techies among us.
>
> how would you capture proceedings if you were to have, say, dozens, or
> even hundreds of events convened simultaneously and you wanted
> everybody everywhere to be able to post their proceedings into one
> central place.  everybody except spammers, of course.  videos can be
> posted to youtube and tagged.  photos to flickr.  but what about the
> text proceedings?  and there is also the issue of a directory of event
> locations.  hoping this wouldn't require a dedicated
> application/platform.  here are some ideas.
>
> -listserve like yahoo or google group - non-public is a downside
> -facebook group - non-public is downside here too
> -wiki - might be too complex for rapid scale-up
> -blog - might be coolest, but might require moderation
> -twitter - might there be a way to collect only the issues raised
> everywhere?  tagged by location, perhaps?  could happen more places
> cuz could send from cellphones?
> -blog - could make a post or page for every event reported and then
> let them post comments.
> -just get everyone to start their own simple, free blog and use a blog
> aggregator... might miss a lot of sites.
> -google docs?
> -blog with a single "guest/contributor" username and password,
> publicly posted, with user only allowed to post reports, tagging for
> author and location within the post?
>
> ...this last option might be best, but then we get to the question of
> what if it all really works and folks wanted to post some stream of
> ongoing results and actions.  could happen.  so the system might want
> to support that.
>
> anything else you can think of out there in social networking space
> that could support such a thing?
>
> i think i like the twitter option, but have no idea if it can be made
> to function in this way.  could all of this be aimed at a single
> twitter name, or just tagged with a single twitter tag?  and somehow
> captured in a way taht was searchable and scrollable long after the
> first events occured?
>
> then there's the scenario where somehow we get to hack up a new
> version of the world map <grin>.
>
> so that's as far as i can guess, and maybe even a little past that.   
> thoughts?
>
> many thanks,
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