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I need a little help
« on: March 14, 2007, 11:49:54 AM »

As most of you know, I work for a marketing research firm.  One of our new clients wants to identify IT professionals who are familiar enough with "Web 2.0" to be able to contribute to a discussion in a meaningful way.  We need to be able to ask 3 or 4 multiple choice questions that will enable us to weed out those people who aren't familiar enough.

The project director's initial though was to see if they could correctly pair technologies used in the development of user-supplied/owned content web sites with the purpose that they serve.  I contend that this method will identify the people familiar with the development of ANY type of web site, not just "Web 2.0" sites. 

If you wanted to identify people who understand the benefits of user supplied/owned content via a few multiple choice questions - without letting them know that the survey was about user supplied/owned content - what might you ask?
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2007, 12:24:11 PM »

Should Viacom succeed in effectively shutting down Google's YouTube and basically ruining everyone's chances of downloading Belushi's Samurai skits whenever the urge moves them?
Should Wikipedia check contributors' credentials?
Who owns the copyrights to this post -- Ivan or OMFGLOLTehGheekery?
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2007, 12:24:41 PM »

I don't know... those might be a bit obvious.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2007, 12:51:15 PM »

Web 2.0 is a vaguely-defined buzzword that I detest...but here's my two cents Canadian:

I'd ask a few questions in general about t3h interwebs to start off with and put a few about 'Web 2.0' in the middle such as the YouTube/Wikipedia issues that Ivan mentioned.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2007, 04:42:18 PM »

There's another intarweb?
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2007, 07:06:31 PM »

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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2007, 07:13:55 PM »

Sorry, but I know nothing of web2.0 AFAIK it's another marketing term for nothing.

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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2007, 08:10:39 PM »

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I'm with pb.

Now if you want to ask something about construction, or something that I do know about, I'll gladly pinch you.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2007, 08:36:55 PM »

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You might try finding some random forum out there, registering, and posting your question without introductions.  That seems to be acceptable on most of the internets, considering how many of those we get around these parts.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2007, 08:42:40 PM »

I think what we're going to do is list 50 or so web sites (both traditional and "web 2.0") and ask the respondents to identify each site as either "static" or "user supplied" data.

I just thank Bob that I'm not the one that's going to program this study, because I couldn't handle all of this "Web 2.0" talk as if it were some phenomenon that is worth discussing.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2007, 09:35:10 PM »

Sorry, I tried my best at the time but I was distracted.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2007, 10:46:39 PM »

Who's Bob?
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« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2007, 10:58:30 PM »

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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2007, 11:17:33 PM »

Let me tell ya the story of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs
Friend of man and Yeti, he walked with the gods
He wore a silly grin and he smoked a silly pipe
He fought the conspiracy every day of his life
He whiffed the pstench of many a man
Fathered many children, with his mighty glands
He founded the religion in which we all believe
brought us all the slack that everybody needs
He was the greatest salesman the world had ever seen
He could sell the farts, after he ate all the beans
He could sell a pile of shit to a common fly
All of us who knew him figured he would never die

"Bob" Dobbs, "Bob" Dobbs
He was a real man and brave
"Bob" Dobbs, "Bob" Dobbs
Is lying dead in his grave
Without "Bob" what are we going to do
When the men from Planet X come marching through?
Our whole world is stuck in jail
With only "Bob" to pay the bail
But now he's dead, so we're doomed, what to do?

He founded the city known as Dobbstown
Deep within Malaysia, it was rarely found
There he studied forbidden science until that fatal day
When he came on to his flock by the city by the bay
Few had ever seen him few had ever dared
Most had no occasion, others just plain scared
Some others came to San Francisco for the event of the age
When the holy smiling one would step out on the stage
"Bob" looked to the left and he looked to the right
Then he strode out with confidence into the bright spotlight
He waved to all the cheering fans as he stepped up to the mike
When a crazed assassin's bullet sent him too eternal night

"Bob" Dobbs, "Bob" Dobbs
The crowds knew their Savior had come
"Bob" Dobbs, "Bob" Dobbs
Was greeted by the flash of a gun
Without "Bob" we have plenty to fear
As we swiftly approach that fatal year
For in nineteen ninety eight
He would have set that record straight
But now he's dead so we're doomed, oh my dear

Now this has been the story of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs
Some called him Messiah, others called him fraud
I hope that before ninety-eight that the word gets out
That "Bob" Dobbs was the only guy we could not do without
The endtimes are upon us and things don't look so good
"Bob" Dobbs had the answer but was seldom understood
We're in a heap of trouble, our books are in the red
There is no joy in Melville now that "Bob" is dead
So we pray to fighting Jesus to do battle for "Bob"'s soul
To Poop Dog and to Pee Dog, for strengthening our hold
We prayed to he that needs no name so we may need no slack
and we prayed to Wotan, "Please send our Bobbie back!"

"Bob" Dobbs, "Bob" Dobbs
our lives aren't worth shit without you
"Bob" Dobbs, "Bob" Dobbs
Oh dear what will we do?
Without "Bob" we are in a tight fix
When the Xists come to kill us just for kicks
If "Bob" were not in his grave
All the SubGenii would be saved
But he is so our chances are nix!

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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2007, 06:54:25 AM »

You might also want to question about whether websites should be more reactive to the target community and accepts their input or remains static, and then have them list a set of reasons for each. (Tough to program as multiple choice, so perhaps you might just have the one short-answer, or you can somehow find a way, perhaps by listing some reason (both valid or otherwise) and break it up into sections.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2007, 11:29:28 AM »

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*sniff* I'm family!
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #16 on: March 15, 2007, 03:08:10 PM »

"The saw is family"

oops, wrong thread, besides I know LuciferSam's response anyway.

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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #17 on: March 16, 2007, 12:36:34 AM »

Ironically, I have nothing useful for you, Biz. It's ironic because my company is launching a platform for user-submitted local news in less than two weeks.

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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2007, 12:47:08 AM »

Web 2.0 looks like a great way for companies to have to produce less and appear to be hip and cutting edge.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2007, 10:44:08 AM »

Only 2 unread posts this morning.

If this were a Web 2.0 site, it wouldn't last very long.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2007, 12:48:10 PM »

Well post more and then more of us would respond.

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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2007, 01:31:09 PM »

Actually, it seems much busier in weeks when I don't post.

I'm starting to develop a complex.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2007, 03:43:31 PM »

What kind?  Apartment?

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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2007, 03:51:43 PM »

More like military-industrial.
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Re: I need a little help
« Reply #24 on: March 16, 2007, 03:53:41 PM »

Good thing it wasn't an Oedipal, then you'd be a mother fucker.
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