June 24 2009 Conference Call
Conference Call Notes
Drafted by Joe Andrieu, June 24, 2009
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Attendees
- Joe Andrieu
- Doc Searls
- Adriana Lukas
- Chris Carfi
- Judi Clark
- Sean Bohan
- Allan Gregory
Notes
Allan Gregory
Doc has a new intern at Berkman. He's going to help Doc out with VRM, helping coordinate. The internship is being paid for by Serdna.
Allan will be helping with some wiki cleaning, syncing up all the different projects, all the different committee members.
Much going on
Lots of things going on right now. For example, while Doc was in the UK, the ctrl-shift folks (who overlap a bit with MyDex). They gave a talk to the Guardian newspaper. A whole room full of people about Emancipay, which was well received.
In the US, journalism is following the RIAA-style insanity, while the Guardian seems to be inclined towards an open source approach.
Doc's been walking through a user experience description for EmanciPay. So, for example, at the Guardian, we'd like users to be able to track readership offline. Do we add a short code to every story (ala VCR Plus) so that users can.
Perhaps like QR codes (Quick Response)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_codes They are like bar codes, but with a bit more information. So, you might see a QR on a billboard and take a picture of that on an iPhone, then the iPhone opens a specific web page. These should work with any phone that has a camera.