Comments for sarahcpr http://sarahcpr.com all that's fit to click Sat, 17 May 2008 20:49:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 Comment on How We Met by Paul http://sarahcpr.com/2007/06/05/how-we-met/#comment-604 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:38:07 +0000 http://sarahcpr.com/2007/06/05/how-we-met/#comment-604 This comment drifts sideways from your article.... but is one of encouragement. Your thinking is spot on, after all, we are visual foremost - and such bouncy snippets and arrangement of words between couples paints a very rich & colourful picture, impressionistic and semantic verse - third party, detached listings mapped by luddite's. Everything in your simple statements, along with there clever arrangement, and relevance, points to being intuitively right, this 'feels reasonable', it is sophisticated and you should explore the application further. Thinking it through: Story telling has stood the test of time, memorable bites are easy to carry once a picture is conjured up, possibly the most hardy analogue format we have had. In New Zealand written word only surfaced in the last 200 years, it was a world of oral culture - myth, song, legend were passed on in the artefact's of carvings,song and storytelling - the relationships were one of the bonds formed with the land, the extended family, and of past ancestors, - all full of meaning, it is well known the Maori people could recant back many generations, with all their links and relationships intact with uncanny precision - maybe we should all be looking back, at oral cultures, in order to step forward into the new cloud that is forming? The Moari name for New Zealand is Aeoteroa " Land of the long white cloud". Living here the word 'Aeoteroa' immediately brings a warm rush of beauty to mind, wouldn't it be great if the web "cloud" were to transpose itself and leave us all with a similar feeling .... and not one of plucking & sorting, crude lists, or trudging through frustrating meaningless stuff! We have a long way to go,... but you are on the right path.... This comment drifts sideways from your article…. but is one of encouragement.

Your thinking is spot on, after all, we are visual foremost - and such bouncy snippets and arrangement of words between couples paints a very rich & colourful picture, impressionistic and semantic verse - third party, detached listings mapped by luddite’s. Everything in your simple statements, along with there clever arrangement, and relevance, points to being intuitively right, this ‘feels reasonable’, it is sophisticated and you should explore the application further.

Thinking it through: Story telling has stood the test of time, memorable bites are easy to carry once a picture is conjured up, possibly the most hardy analogue format we have had. In New Zealand written word only surfaced in the last 200 years, it was a world of oral culture - myth, song, legend were passed on in the artefact’s of carvings,song and storytelling - the relationships were one of the bonds formed with the land, the extended family, and of past ancestors, - all full of meaning, it is well known the Maori people could recant back many generations, with all their links and relationships intact with uncanny precision - maybe we should all be looking back, at oral cultures, in order to step forward into the new cloud that is forming?

The Moari name for New Zealand is Aeoteroa ” Land of the long white cloud”. Living here the word ‘Aeoteroa’ immediately brings a warm rush of beauty to mind, wouldn’t it be great if the web “cloud” were to transpose itself and leave us all with a similar feeling …. and not one of plucking & sorting, crude lists, or trudging through frustrating meaningless stuff! We have a long way to go,… but you are on the right path….

]]> Comment on Oh hey, I didn’t see you there by david http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/31/oh-hey-i-didnt-see-you-there/#comment-595 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:57:39 +0000 http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/31/oh-hey-i-didnt-see-you-there/#comment-595 My other favorite type of desperate photographer shot is trying to make geeks working on computers look cool by putting them in unbelievable situations. When I was in high school the paper wanted to do a feature on me and this photographer was so desperate to make what I was doing look cool she eventually took a picture of me using a laptop laying on a field of grass with my dog. Who uses a laptop laying in a grassy field (except in HP gwen stefani commercials). The best part was that I even had the "Oh hey, I didn't see you there" head turn look. Oh, the humanity! My other favorite type of desperate photographer shot is trying to make geeks working on computers look cool by putting them in unbelievable situations. When I was in high school the paper wanted to do a feature on me and this photographer was so desperate to make what I was doing look cool she eventually took a picture of me using a laptop laying on a field of grass with my dog. Who uses a laptop laying in a grassy field (except in HP gwen stefani commercials).

The best part was that I even had the “Oh hey, I didn’t see you there” head turn look. Oh, the humanity!

]]> Comment on Oh hey, I didn’t see you there by Doug http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/31/oh-hey-i-didnt-see-you-there/#comment-582 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:34:34 +0000 http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/31/oh-hey-i-didnt-see-you-there/#comment-582 Apparently Alfresco was so shamed by this post they chose to throw up a 500 error rather than keep the cheesy headshots. (And they don't do a very good job of rescuing exceptions, I have to say.) Apparently Alfresco was so shamed by this post they chose to throw up a 500 error rather than keep the cheesy headshots.

(And they don’t do a very good job of rescuing exceptions, I have to say.)

]]> Comment on Most Valuable Players by Wyatt http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/24/most-valuable-players/#comment-572 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:32:51 +0000 http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/24/most-valuable-players/#comment-572 Yo Sarah - That's a tonne of good observations you've got going. I like the way Polyvore can capture the attention of the ultra-casual user and provide an easy route for people to increase their level of involvement incrementally. I think that sometimes gets overlooked. Not only recognize audience segments but allowing people to vary their level of commitment and also letting the first-timer user know that the core users are "out there". It's rather comforting to know a site can grow with you. Yo Sarah - That’s a tonne of good observations you’ve got going. I like the way Polyvore can capture the attention of the ultra-casual user and provide an easy route for people to increase their level of involvement incrementally. I think that sometimes gets overlooked. Not only recognize audience segments but allowing people to vary their level of commitment and also letting the first-timer user know that the core users are “out there”. It’s rather comforting to know a site can grow with you.

]]> Comment on Most Valuable Players by akiey http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/24/most-valuable-players/#comment-567 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:49:03 +0000 http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/24/most-valuable-players/#comment-567 Hey Sarah, sorry for digressing from the topic for a quick sec (am about to go into a meeting) but I just learnt of Polyvore on your site. Interesting stuff, very creative things you all got going there. Will check back to learn more. More power to you & your creativity, more success too:) http://flickr.com/photos/akiey Hey Sarah, sorry for digressing from the topic for a quick sec (am about to go into a meeting) but I just learnt of Polyvore on your site. Interesting stuff, very creative things you all got going there. Will check back to learn more.
More power to you & your creativity, more success too:)

http://flickr.com/photos/akiey

]]> Comment on 8 Random Facts (Meme) by akiey http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/22/8-random-facts-meme/#comment-566 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:46:11 +0000 http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/22/8-random-facts-meme/#comment-566 lol! your no.8 is utterly funny! Back in eigth grade we raised chicken which we all loved doing despite the 6am feeding & cleaning routine. For 4 yrs through high school I had my own mini-chicken ranch at home (at one time with over 200 chicken for sell),thanks to my parents' & siblings understanding of my desire to dare & explore. no.7....err, guilty too but I have one Mac and the other 3 are PCs and a laptop. One "sick" PC and another slow one need to go. Less stuff as DavidYang advises. Aaah, so that's what techies and comp experts call that unusual blue color,huh? lol! lol! your no.8 is utterly funny! Back in eigth grade we raised chicken which we all loved doing despite the 6am feeding & cleaning routine. For 4 yrs through high school I had my own mini-chicken ranch at home (at one time with over 200 chicken for sell),thanks to my parents’ & siblings understanding of my desire to dare & explore.

no.7….err, guilty too but I have one Mac and the other 3 are PCs and a laptop. One “sick” PC and another slow one need to go. Less stuff as DavidYang advises.

Aaah, so that’s what techies and comp experts call that unusual blue color,huh? lol!

]]> Comment on Most Valuable Players by Sarah http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/24/most-valuable-players/#comment-558 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:13:49 +0000 http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/24/most-valuable-players/#comment-558 Wow leafar, that's awesome! Can you explain more about your internal system - how does it calculate "user value" and what does it do with that info? Wow leafar, that’s awesome! Can you explain more about your internal system - how does it calculate “user value” and what does it do with that info?

]]> Comment on Most Valuable Players by Sarah http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/24/most-valuable-players/#comment-557 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:10:15 +0000 http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/24/most-valuable-players/#comment-557 Thanks for the links Justin, very helpful! Alan Cooper's diagram reminded me of another point about design - creating enough complexity so that users feel good when they figure it out, but not feel stupid when they can't. It's a tough line to walk. (Sorry I didn't respond sooner, I was away!) Thanks for the links Justin, very helpful! Alan Cooper’s diagram reminded me of another point about design - creating enough complexity so that users feel good when they figure it out, but not feel stupid when they can’t. It’s a tough line to walk. (Sorry I didn’t respond sooner, I was away!)

]]> Comment on Most Valuable Players by leafar http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/24/most-valuable-players/#comment-532 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:57:59 +0000 http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/24/most-valuable-players/#comment-532 <a href="http://www.u-lik.com" rel="nofollow">At U.[lik]</a> we've been designing for power users, dumping lots of addings very regularly. I do agree it makes the site more complicated but we've managed to reach very high level of contributions (nearly 500 new items a day which is about the size of mahalo contribution) with very few users. We also have an internal system that calculates "user value" so we could dedicate our scare time <a href="http://www.u-lik.us/" rel="nofollow">to those that change</a> the face of the website. We are now entering a new phase where we build a new version of the website with an easier interface and a dedicated space for those power users. They will feel at home because they will have all the funcs (and we will had a kind of elite reward too) without bothering the rest of the community. I think that's also what wikipedia (in a way) has done. Just broke the 1 500 000 ratings... our CF engine (or should i say or Micro-CF engine) is doing great and will really deliver instant value to this "visitors". Great post. Oh and i just discovered polyvore it's great. At U.[lik] we’ve been designing for power users, dumping lots of addings very regularly. I do agree it makes the site more complicated but we’ve managed to reach very high level of contributions (nearly 500 new items a day which is about the size of mahalo contribution) with very few users.

We also have an internal system that calculates “user value” so we could dedicate our scare time to those that change the face of the website.

We are now entering a new phase where we build a new version of the website with an easier interface and a dedicated space for those power users. They will feel at home because they will have all the funcs (and we will had a kind of elite reward too) without bothering the rest of the community. I think that’s also what wikipedia (in a way) has done.

Just broke the 1 500 000 ratings… our CF engine (or should i say or Micro-CF engine) is doing great and will really deliver instant value to this “visitors”.

Great post. Oh and i just discovered polyvore it’s great.

]]> Comment on 8 Random Facts (Meme) by leafar http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/22/8-random-facts-meme/#comment-531 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:15:36 +0000 http://sarahcpr.com/2008/01/22/8-random-facts-meme/#comment-531 <a href="http://ulik.typepad.com/leafar/2008/01/ive-been-tagged.html" rel="nofollow">Done</a> ;-D Very funny game. Tell me if by chance you come to paris. Done ;-D
Very funny game.

Tell me if by chance you come to paris.

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