On Wed 20 Feb 2008, Chris Prather <chris(a)prather.org> wrote:
I think right now the issues we have is that more
people don't
realize that they exist.
Yes - exactly. I keep hearing "RGL is great! Why didn't I know about
it before?"
I don't think OpenGuides necessarily needs to compete in the great
user-generated content bunfight - we don't need to be fighting against
Trusted Places, or Qype, or whatever Friday Cities is called this
week, because what we do is different. What we need to do is to reach
the people who already _want_ what we're doing, but who don't know that
what they want already exists.
I think part of the problem is that people aren't talking about OpenGuides.
Way back when we started, there was a huge amount of buzz around OGL -
the Semantic Web people were excited, the psychogeography people were
excited, everyone was excited. We're still exciting! It's just that
the buzz has died down.
Most of the people I'm talking to about RGL at the moment aren't
new media/web 2.0 people, but people who've spent a good part of their
lives involved in local community stuff, and are now looking at ways
to take this online.
Kake