Clarion Folk

Here’s an idea.

1. A school could set up the server, and students can log in, submit their work, and actually do research etc.
2. More, they could create timelines, add their own “wikis”, put together the tagging system for projects.
3. In building Research for a History assignment, there could be a school-wide tag-cloud-relationship system that can be used. They can add to this, possibly.

Notes:

Needs refinement. The idea. But is a better contextual use of a file management system than just a .. file management system.

The idea is mainly to build up the school’s resources, and allow students easy access to these resources.

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Here’s an idea.

It’s based around a Time (and Project) Management understanding.

1. Not your normal management system. The main point of this web server is to get people to actually note down what they have done for the day.
2. It will monitor the times they have logged in.
3. It will send reminders out at set times.
4. For each day, the User logs in and inserts a new record. They give: Start Time, End Time, Projects Worked On (String, autocomplete, maybe del.icio.us type functionality), point form description of work done for the day.

Notes:

Not sure how reliable this would be. The System’s “police-ing” functionality can only go so far.

But it would make people think through what they have done. And management can get all the good stats, be able to see people’s frequency, _when_ they are entering their times.

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Welcome to the first of a new Category of Clarion Folk posts!

Project Dimes will be ideas for any kind of Projects. They might be brand new, they might already have been done half a hundred times.

A single Screen Name across the entire Web. That’s my proposal.

"What!" I hear you say, "That’s stupid."

"OpenID is the big thing for the now, people are fighting with big words over whether or not to do it .. silly silly boy, don’t even step into that overly large pond."

That’s true. OpenID is the big talking point these days. But hear me out.

The Big-Ass Name Grabber

Instead of getting everyone to subscribe and wotnot, turn the whole thing on it’s head.

The idea is that you go to the people, not the other way around.

1. Develop a lean mean fighting machine of a "Bot" and send it throughout the web, probably just starting with blogs, reaping all the names of comments, posters, and others that it can find.

The problem here is Emails. You need the Email, but to get it, you become a spam artist. And therein lies the problem with my idea. Found. Debunked. Done.

But I’ll keep going

2. Contact the Names and ask them to come and verify their "Name".

See, here’s the rub. How do you contact them without being a spammer? And without getting them to come to you first?

3. First person in gets the name first, and then you do a kind of "Gravatar" ish thing, making deals with the bigwigs like Wordpress and Drupal and all the hosted Blogging places.

4. Because you’ve successfully done what noone else could, retire at the ripe age of twenty three and live out your days playing badminton or Halo or even Warcraft. Whatever floats your fabulously wealthy boat.

Okay. There is _something_ in that idea .. but it’s not much. And the whole "Get Email Without Being a Spammer" thing would really seem to put the kybosh all over it.

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