A rather perceptive post, forwarded in full from the london.pm discussion. Kake ----- Forwarded message from Simon Wilcox <essuu(a)ourshack.com> ----- From: Simon Wilcox <essuu(a)ourshack.com> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:07:15 +0100 (BST) To: london.pm(a)london.pm.org.realprogrammers.com Subject: Re: Call for Comments - OpenGuides and usability On 22 Oct 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I would argue that the technology is irrelevant, There are two kinds of people who might interact with Open Guide: 1. Consumers 2. Producers A successful site will make it easy for consumers to consume and producers to produce. There will always be many more consumers than producers. A *really* successful site will be able to convert consumers into producers. Arguably Open Guide succeeds at none of these things as it only really makes it easy for *producers* to consume as too much pre-knowledge is required to understand and navigate the site and a lot of the early information is aimed at producers. But then, I guess it depends on what you define as "successful". Perhaps we should ask that question - how will we know when Open Guide to London is a success ? Simon. ----- End forwarded message -----