Comments on: Outside.In Launch and Welcome

By: pass a drug test

pass a drug test — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:01:02 +0000

i have posted your blog on my site

Have a nice day
anne shavin
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By: cone crusher

cone crusher — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:02:00 +0000

create local destinations continue to develop–best of luck

By: jude roberts

jude roberts — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:52:58 +0000

Hi. Thanks for going online. Sounds like you are going to be a hit.
What about a whole city? For instance Boise which is really rocking right now in Idaho. My neighborhood is a deadbeat. Nothing happens here only in downtown boise. Please advise.

By: susan mernit

susan mernit — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:07:19 +0000

congrats! it is great to see efforts to create local destinations continue to develop–best of luck with this one.

By: Asha Dornfest

Asha Dornfest — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:08:27 +0000

What a fascinating site, and you’re the ideal person to be involved, Steven! Congrats and best of luck. I have some blog suggestions for Portland, OR when you’re ready to start building to your queue.

By: Asha Dornfest

Asha Dornfest — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:08:00 +0000

By: Dave Munger

Dave Munger — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:59:43 +0000

I see some mention of your tagging system, but no explanation of how it works. It would be nice if you had a simple explanation for the tagging-impaired.

By: susan mernit

susan mernit — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:07:19 +0000

congrats! it is great to see efforts to create local destinations continue to develop–best of luck with this one.

By: Dave Munger

Dave Munger — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:59:43 +0000

I see some mention of your tagging system, but no explanation of how it works. It would be nice if you had a simple explanation for the tagging-impaired.

By: Mark Vega

Mark Vega — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:16:06 +0000

Such a great idea, but I’m sure you know all know that already. Congratulations on your debut!

I am intrigued by the suggestion that outside.in will, or at least have the potential to, address more than those clusters of ostensible cultural interest (restaurants, concerts, clubs., gyms, etc.) covered by other sites and provide a social geography of a community grounded by those issues, events, or people most important to it.

What makes up a map of community is determined by who submits and what is important to them. I was wondering, however, if there were any plans to have some relatively loose moderation of a community page or even a variation on a Digg-style system that might weight stories or events of negligible immediate interest (yet perhaps in the enduring public interest) in such a way that they attain and maintain some visibility rather than being buried under a tag. I’m thinking specifically about that hypothetical post about a “declining public school” mentioned on the front page but also posts by those who, for example, are both new to a community or new, by virtue of lack of access or other economic reason, to computers and geotagging.

Related to my above comments, I was also wondering what kind of efforts are being made to spread the word on the site and whether those efforts will extend beyond getting the word out to and capturing the interest of the blogosphere and tech/geo-communities.

Very much looking forward to seeing what you folks have planned.