October 21 2008 Conference Call

Topic: R-button working meeting

Attendees

• Keith Hopper
• Doc Searls
• Joe Andrieu
• Dean Landsman
• Iain Henderson

Action Items

• Send thank you to Dana and Barbara; Try to nudge towards a face to face geek meeting w/ npr (keith)
• Next steps for r-button / radioparadise.com use case
  • Couple days worth of work to demo at IIW
• Next steps for iPhone mockup
  • Determine required changes
• Push further on r-button affordance - what are all the states? Why turn red? etc.
  • Implement / try various approaches
• Knight news challenge
  • Talk to Ed; figure out logistics

Outstanding Items

• One-page VRM website
• Chris to talk to Common Craft folks to see if they'll help us
• Chris to confirm with Margaret what she had in mind for VRM involvement
• Doc's slide narrative; video

Agenda notes, questions, comments

• Worked on some actual code - use case for radioparadise.com (now work in progress)
  • Uses JavaScript, plug-in, and homegrown HTML page
  • Let's show it to Radio Paradise
• Open question on state of r-button affordances
  • What qualifies Amazon to use an r-button? How do you become certified?
  • What constitutes a ker-chunk? What is a relationship?
• Public Media wants to be in cheering section; doesn't want to contaminate our process
  • Interest in i-card / r-card model for representing identity in a membership context
  • One idea: Stations as IDPs issuing icard and it could be used at npr.org -- provide a way into the market initiated by users and through the stations
  • 3-prong: any station can run own IDP, NPR offers service to make it at easy as possible
• r-button / radioparadise.com use case
• iPhone app looked good, went over well
• Knight news challenge
  • Apply with Peter from Edhat
  • Aggregator of citizen journalism w/ paychoice plugged in
  • Edhat as relationship service