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Re:
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[unrev-II] Thoughts
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Winters wrote:
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As much as I love Slashdot I must
admit that I check it once or twice a day and rarely reply to the
stories. I'll submit news about once a month. OTOH I have spent a
great deal of time reading almost every email on this list and I
contribute almost every day. (often more than once per day)
That is a fundamental observation. In general, eMail is the right
interface -- because it is central to my daily activities, because
information comes to me instead of having to go searching for it, and
because the threading helps me organize things effectively.
What it is missing is Slashdot functionality (wrt evaluations and the
capacity to ignore threads), editability, and Traction functionality
(wrt categories).
Both systems are missing a good sense of hierarchy and view control.
Which is where we stand to make a serious contribution.
But as Lee points out, a Zope/Squishdot system presents a lot of room
for hacking. *Especially* if we use some sort of Gnutella-enabled
"eMail" app,
so that additions and changes we make are broadcast either directly to
others, or perhaps sent to the server, where they are rebroadcast
(possibly after transcoding to replace user-specific node IDs with
global system IDs).
So we might be able to make such a system behave like email. Even if it
takes a separate "email" app for now, it would still have the proper
behaviors.
And Squishdot, being Squeak/Smalltalk based, strikes me as potentially
*very* hackable...
Sincerely,
Eric Armstrong
eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com