Chilling Effects

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Chilling Effects Teamspace

We have some resources for Chilling Effects development. What should we do and how should we prioritize? Please add your ideas to the mix.

  • Nov. 13 -- add ideas over next few weeks. Next steps, circulate among other Chill participants, prioritize, and turn into an RFP/Statement of Work.

Major categories

  • Design
  • Functionality (for public viewers, for admins)
  • Data manipulation


Data dump

Ideas from WS Nov. 12 email:

  1. . current workflow automation -- can we make data entry more efficient and standardize entries better for data analysis?
  2. . interactivity -- where might we make the site more dynamic for users?
  3. . aggregation -- perhaps incorporate news feeds from related sites, including CMLP.
  4. . security -- let's get the admin interface into SSL; make sure entries are being properly sanitized.
  5. . despam -- lots of spam notices lately. can we set up more effective filters without driving away real contributors?

Ideas from Nov. 13 telephone call:

  1. - update the look and feel, give the site a consistent branding:
  2. - -photographic illustration of weather reports would add interest (cf. legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com)
  3. - -possibly replace weather icons with photos of actual storm clouds, sunny weather, etc.?
  4. - make the site more responsive from the admin side, speed repetitive entry
  5. - fix the ordering of questions in drop-downs (WS will change default ordering to by-category)
  6. - create more group FAQs (like 745, 746) to make rapid annotation easier
  7. - a re-editing of the FAQs to eliminate redundancy and consolidate topics would also speed entry
  8. - add a (re)captcha to the notice-entry form
  9. - possible bulk-update feature
  10. - a bulk-delete feature might also be useful for clearly spammy notices
  11. - following a deletion, a link to return to the list of notices to be edited (http://www.chillingeffects.org/admin/notice.cgi) would help (I do this now with a bookmark--I find I don't tend to use the links to the Notice Wizard Interface or the Notice Approval Wizard following a deletion)
  12. - user testing
  13. - make search-by-field more prominent
  14. - add aggregated real-time news, perhaps in place of "related" boxes
  15. - interactive or real-time data-visualizations (think about what type of data might be interesting to watch) ticker, graphs, changing display, Google mapping
  16. - -Might be interesting to track, in a generic way, which principals are sending the most DMCA notices (member of the MPAA vs. RIAA? Does our data tend to reveal the activity of notorious IP trolls like Monster Cable?
  17. - -Maybe offer permalinks to Weather Reports and enable some sharing apps (Twitter, Facebook) to facilitate users passing reports on (cf. www.techdirt.com)
  18. - data manipulation tools, e.g. to standardize "sender" fields

Resources

Our past design choices: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/team/wiki/Tech:_Design_Resources

as well as developer resources: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/team/wiki/Tech:_Development_Consulting

Sites whose design we like

  • Ars Technica
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