The internet has been buzzing about Ron Paul since before the beginning of the year. The internet cares about Ron Paul. This is easily seen when you compare number of people subscribed to each of the candidates channels. Ron Paul’s is over 36,000, while Barak Obama is at 12,000, followed by Hillary at 6000. That, in addition to the fact that the internet audience is the fuel behind viral advertising, makes it a pretty obvious pick for a topic that has the potential to go viral.
It is much more difficult to find negative information about Ron Paul than it is to find positive information; however, he has some big flaws that are quite hard to see why they were overlooked.
The two week project for Jason is due on Wednesday. Mine is almost finished. If I have time, It would be nice figuring out how to let people click and drag the photos around, but only within the board area.
also, an important feature that there wont be implemented because of time is a resizing feature. People shouldn’t have to resize their photos to fit the right size. its way too much work and and if someone uploads an image that is the wrong size, it detracts from the experience for others (because the image doesn’t fit inside of the poloroid).
The working version has been taken down for security reasons.
The two following images demonstrate two of the four possible places people will be able to walk to when they go to the site. They will choose a name, and then be able to use the keyboard to walk to one of four message boards. When they walk close enough, a talk bubble will appear, allowing them to post their hatred, sadness, happiness or love of anything they please.
There are two current movements going on currently with the web which act as a definition of web 2.0. The first is social websites where the users create the content. This has been around for about a year or so with examples such as digg, youtube, flickr, wikipedia, and of course myspace to lead the way. The second movement is web applications. This is a relatively new movement. Google documents and spreadsheets, and the facebook development platform are great examples of this.
The first project for Dynamic Persuasion Design is to create a user generated site that is fun and interactive using text. It is a 3 week project. My idea is to create an interface where people can enter a name, and control their own footsteps. When the footsteps walk close enough to another set of footsteps, they can talk to each other by posting a shout-out.
