Russ gave an excellent speech even though he only had a short time to prepare it. There are concerns we all have over the paths in our websites. We follow information down a path, then we are stuck in a silo. It’s forced inflexible structure.
Given the choice, people will always follow their own paths. Many similarities on the web to exhibition design. You cannot control users.
Imagine a stripped-back approach. There are 3 pages:
– front page with a search
– search results
– the content page
Imagine if users could add their own tags to pages? It’s very hard to let go.
Imagine commenting on anything.
Imagine not that a page is the content with media inside the page, but media that is the page that is the content. ( I’ve stuffed that explanation up ).
Imagine extending collections, galleries, museums, etc. They could come alive! Flickr like membership, where the focus is on participation.
There are downsides, it all revolves around “letting go”. Westerners are uptight control freaks.
Site mourning – comes from content editors mainly. People fly in from Google then fly out. They don’t want to admit that…
