ReThink New Orleans
This is an announcement of the re-release of Think New Orleans, you can follow along at the beta site Think New Orleans (Beta), which will stay a step ahead at all times. (More later, in a posting to be entitled, Forever Beta.)
It’s maybe a bit too early to announce, but there’s traffic here for corporate blogging, and I’d like to draw your attention to this labor of love that is very dear to me.
Editing this after posting. Composing not covering up. Bad Blogger!
Think New Orleans
A software application that organize conversations about New Orleans, providing:
- Data organized the by way we met; neighborhood, school, church, restaurant, cafe, bar, etc.
- Easy to use, cross-browser UIs that edit data one piece at a time.
- Tagging. That’s for sure! That’s for sure!
- Aggregation of New Orleans information, otherwise known as gathering.
- Syndication of New Orleans information.
A web application that lives and breathes New Orleans.
Request For Comments
I’m going to double down for the new year. All New Orleans all the time.
You want to see the use cases? They are on the Wiki.
If you would like to see the editing interfaces, drop me a message in the comments, or via e-mail. I’d love feedback from the usability folks, other programmers, and bloggers.
Special Thanks
Yeah, well, I’ll get it going and then roll on the floor in gratitude to everyone who helped me with the Wiki. If I did it now, it would sound like name dropping, because the people that rallied were invariably the coolest people out there.
The coolest people in the blogosphere, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Die Hard Update
For all the folks that helped me on the Wiki, who’ve waited, here’s how I’ve spent the last two months:
- Building a new Fedora Core 4 Linux server at SolidHost, including building out a proper e-mail server on Postfix. Thank you to Jose Nazarrio for showing me the Postfix light.
- Increasing test coverage of the framework behind Think New Orleans, using Cenqua Clover, which was gracously donated to Think New Orleans. This exercise uncovered lots of little issues.
- Relay, the XML dependency engine that drives Think New Orleans, got dumbed down for the better. I’d worked on it so long, it had a few too many clever ideas. It is not much lighter and smaller.
It will be a soft launch, made ever so soft by the low volume of traffic to my blog. This blog has been hush for so long. I’d keep a lid on it, but hey, if you wonder where I got all these snarky ideas on corporate blogging, well, here it is. Web 2.0 ain’t here yet.