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Re: I did the UX design for Brighter Planet

iwilker — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:20:11 -0000

Thanks, Whitney! And I'm @iwilker; been following your tweetstream for a good long while.

cheers! - Ian

p.s. almost forgot: All ye Whitney readers who see this — help us steer where we take the site from here. check out the beta, and any and all feedback welcome on our GetSatisfaction spot.

Re: I did the UX design for Brighter Planet

iwilker — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:10:11 -0000

@Whitney - I'm Ian, Brighter Planet's community daemon (or something). Sure wish I'd been able to participate in the design process -- would have been so cool to work on something with you and the rest of the Cog crew, but I came aboard too late to take part. (Almost worked it out with Jeff and Greg Hoy to do this site a few years back, but to my undying frustration my side couldn't get our act together on funding.) In any case it's not too bad simply enjoying the fruit of all the love you and the rest of the team put into the site.

Adam would no doubt have dropped by here already, but he's on a much-needed vacation this week. Thanks for writing about the site, and for so enthusiastically tweeting about it over the last few days!

@A.J. - re Akoha: now that's a razor-sharp bit of insight. :-) Our CTO (the aforementioned Adam) really, really likes Akoha; lots of thinking underway along the lines you suggest.

And thanks for reporting on "how far I drive" -- known issue; we're working on it. As for supporting non-U.S. residents: we had to start this way, but internationalization is something we're looking at (and a lot of users want it -- we're listening.)

Re: Your flickr and twitter accounts can finally shake hands

iwilker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:39:06 -0000

Gopal,

Glad you enjoyed!

cheers,
Ian

Re: David Weinberger on Obama’s Singular Focus

iwilker — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:40:21 -0000

Thanks Mark!

Now that the post-election excitement has been replaced by the grind of governing, it's good to read your comment. I think Obama will be able to continue to inspire people, despite Washington's legendary ability to reduce everyone to petty partisan bickering. But I've no doubt that he desperately needs every individual like yourself who's willing to declare a desire to keep the faith.

Re: Twestival: Amazing!

iwilker — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:44:22 -0000

David,

I haven't had time in the last couple weeks to give to the twestival effort -- I've just been watching from the peanut gallery. And I agree -- the way it's come together here in Asheville has been astounding. Look at all those sponsors! And the talent people have donated -- video editing, coding, graphic design, writing, speaking, mandolin-strumming...

Anyway, it's been exciting to see, and I too am looking forward to meeting you and about 50 other people I've been floored by in the last couple weeks. See you there.

-- @iwilker

Re: 10 tips to become a successful social media marketer (and user)

iwilker — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:54:53 -0000

Guffaw. It ain't brain surgery, is it? (Lots of other kinds of webwork are expertise-based, but #10 on the list is just about right in this area...)

Re: Two Views of Twitter for Journalists

iwilker — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:19:27 -0000

CJR's question is silly -- at this late date, to invite debate whether twitter has any journalistic value is to be on par with global warming "skeptics."

Re: qual.ms

iwilker — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:26:31 -0000

I love this. Road. Snow. And then it's amazing how mere mention of that record conjures something visceral out of these ingredients, at least for me ... hot embers of soul and rage at the dark, bleak bottom of the Reagan era. SST forever!

Re: Almost Real Time

iwilker — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:53:53 -0000

Looks promising -- I've been casting about for a good mechanism for "redball"-type notifications for some time; have used Rasasa, zaptxt, others and these have all been unreliable in the extreme.

Re: Wonder of Wonders: A Mainstream Media Co. Offers Multimedia Embed Codes

iwilker — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:12:05 -0000

Good one. And of course Colbert in particular has famously benefited from viral distribution of his clips.

Re: 200,000 Letters In 32 Hours?

iwilker — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:17:12 -0000

Interesting insight from Andrew Wetzler, a lawyer and ESA expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, on his blog:

Having the Department of Interior, rather than the Fish and Wildlife Service, respond to the comments is consistent with some informal conversations I’ve had with Agency personnel, who told me that the scientists and policy experts at the Fish and Wildlife Service were not consulted on these proposed rule changes and would not be taking any role in analyzing them. Reading between the lines a bit, it sounded to me that the Service’s career employees were none to happy about the proposal or the Administration’s failure to run it through normal channels. Put another way, these rule changes are almost entirely the product of political appointees at the Department of the Interior and it looks like the Bush Administration is determined to keep it that way.

Wetzler's been a really good source on this issue.

Re: Pukka: A Bookmarklet For Multiple Delicious Accounts

iwilker — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:37:20 -0000

Yep, I'd be screwed without Pukka -- I use multiple del.icio.us accounts (oops, can't help but use the old spelling) to feed several different beasts, and Pukka's just an outstanding set-it-and-forget-it (e.g., no logging in and out) tool.

Re: Newspapers on the Live Web (e.g., Twitter)

iwilker — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:39:39 -0000

I look forward to it -- I'll be following along.

Re: Newspapers on the Live Web (e.g., Twitter)

iwilker — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:23:53 -0000

Great to hear, Peter. The sense of tribal presence one can experience through Twitter has been revelatory, for me.

The one Achilles heel of twitter for me used to be the scarcity of people other than the early-adopter crowd in the tech industry. That really is no longer the case, at least for fields that relate to media and communications. There are tons of NPO marketers, communications folks, and fundraisers, for example.

p.s. I'm @iwilker :-)

Re: louisgray.com: Toluu Takes On Tagging to Further Feed Finding

iwilker — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:05:14 -0000

Gracias!

Re: louisgray.com: Toluu Takes On Tagging to Further Feed Finding

iwilker — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:50:48 -0000

Louis, I'd love a toluu invite. iwilker AT gmail. Very much appreciated!

-- ian