Massaging the Medium
Heard of Graffiti from skrbl? A community whiteboard for your community. Basically a blank space you embed in your site, where your users can draw, write & basically create their own content.
This is a big deal, think of it from users' perspective, its an opportunity to talk back, to express an idle thought, or share a random whimsy. This is a community graffiti board, where all users independently create but in the same shared space. It is a new kind of shared community interactivity, and as it extends the medium it changes the game.
Enter the 'Brave new World' where your site does not remain wholly yours, your users take joint ownership. There is atleast that bit of your domain that takes on a life of its own, growing organically, adding color & surprise. Reflecting the wisdom of the masses or the chaotic babble of the multitude but in either case a real thing that you do not fully control.
Try it out, get a graffiti board from skrbl and let the mob rule.
If the medium is the message, massage it a little and see what happens...
This is a big deal, think of it from users' perspective, its an opportunity to talk back, to express an idle thought, or share a random whimsy. This is a community graffiti board, where all users independently create but in the same shared space. It is a new kind of shared community interactivity, and as it extends the medium it changes the game.
Enter the 'Brave new World' where your site does not remain wholly yours, your users take joint ownership. There is atleast that bit of your domain that takes on a life of its own, growing organically, adding color & surprise. Reflecting the wisdom of the masses or the chaotic babble of the multitude but in either case a real thing that you do not fully control.
Try it out, get a graffiti board from skrbl and let the mob rule.
If the medium is the message, massage it a little and see what happens...
Labels: community, crowd, eyeballs, graffiti, users, web 2.0
