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Apr 09New prototype – and life
I have been working on a new prototype for my thesis. I had mentioned this idea before, and have been looking at it for a bit now. I have a semi functioning prototype here (please dont judge my code, it was just really quick (and 99% of it is taken from wikipedia)). I know it works in safari and firefox, I really doubt it works in IE, but as it is only needed so that I can record people using it, it really doesn’t matter. Just figured you might want to check it out. This is really playing with showing off the idea of the living article. This isn’t the article on Mao, this is the article on Mao as of 2 hours ago, maybe even 3min ago. So how can we engage users and let them know this while at the same time get more people to contribute/ peer edit the information quicker. More peer review means better articles and less false information.
I was going to go into jobs and how much I am loving Espresso, but I have to get more work done. I will at some point talk about these things, and maybe some day talk about what ever happened to my multi-touch table… Maybe