Nick Bradbury on BloggerConIV
I came across Nick Bradbury's bloggerconIV post (using Mr Calacanis self promotion technique) here on gnoos (I wasnt trying to build a global solution here as much as one that satisfied local needs first, and then rollover to global interests - which is what regional search engines have always done, so it's kewl a bradbury type comes up early in the search results for gnoos.. eg bloggercon - its not like aussies would be blogging about this, not being there, but it would be of interest to them, etc)
Anyway, Nick of the Feld Mobius Newsgator RSS Empire writes a good summary of 'his experience' (as they say in Big Brother during evictions; 'How does X affect your time in house ?') Nick's quote rings true as when you launch a product the usual suspects start asking for heaps of features and in aggregate wouldnt even click on an ad between themselves (ok if we had ads, they wouldnt click on them !)
Nick Bradbury - "Why did I want to speak up? Because many of the people talking were techies, which is a big part of the problem. Less technical users believe they don't have the technical expertise to join the conversation, so developers end up tailoring their tools to meet the needs of power users since they're the ones that speak up. We need to create an environment where non-geeks don't feel intimidated, and power users need to help rather than hinder this goal."
I wonder how the newbie solutions (ala vox.com which Mr Riley sent me a royal invite to yday) approach will go btw.. i hope there is a post digg audience... just waiting to become the early majority as marketers segment them.
As a friend said to me while chatting away on his Blackberry "Just a minute, I'm on Reddit, and the most popular story is about Unix and topless women." I've had many similar conversations on the flipside with media proprietors who reach millions of people with their mastheads and say "I go to these popular citizen journalism/social media sites, and it's still too geeky, bloggy.... call me back when it gets more mainstream."
Anyway, Nick of the Feld Mobius Newsgator RSS Empire writes a good summary of 'his experience' (as they say in Big Brother during evictions; 'How does X affect your time in house ?') Nick's quote rings true as when you launch a product the usual suspects start asking for heaps of features and in aggregate wouldnt even click on an ad between themselves (ok if we had ads, they wouldnt click on them !)
Nick Bradbury - "Why did I want to speak up? Because many of the people talking were techies, which is a big part of the problem. Less technical users believe they don't have the technical expertise to join the conversation, so developers end up tailoring their tools to meet the needs of power users since they're the ones that speak up. We need to create an environment where non-geeks don't feel intimidated, and power users need to help rather than hinder this goal."
I wonder how the newbie solutions (ala vox.com which Mr Riley sent me a royal invite to yday) approach will go btw.. i hope there is a post digg audience... just waiting to become the early majority as marketers segment them.
As a friend said to me while chatting away on his Blackberry "Just a minute, I'm on Reddit, and the most popular story is about Unix and topless women." I've had many similar conversations on the flipside with media proprietors who reach millions of people with their mastheads and say "I go to these popular citizen journalism/social media sites, and it's still too geeky, bloggy.... call me back when it gets more mainstream."
posted by redbarren at 10:04 PM
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