Days to Christmas: 25 Is your site ready? Those 37 signal guys sure know how to market themselves! This reminds me of an interview I did last year with a guy who was starting a specialized usability consultancy company (specialized in travel sites). His marketing plan was to release some reports for free. 37 signals' approach is just so much more effective.

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Wireless Cities: "If cities evolve, what will shape their evolution over the next few decades? Salon has an interesting article today about the use of wireless technologies as the drivers for urban change."

Good question. Cities are slow changers though. European cities centers are still shaped around the same streets they were 500 years ago.

Since I am starting a new discussion site, I have to seed it. There should always be some new content, to pull people in. Until there is enough conversation going on (this might take 6 months), I have to put a lot of writing work in it. This is one reason to only host community sites about topics you're passionate about. Drupal luckily lets you schedule future posts, so I just uploaded a few hundred pictures to my new India community site, and most of them are scheduled to slowly start appearing over the next 6 months. Yey for Drupal.

Wikinews launches. An interesting experiment.

Day 6: conclusions

1. Six days with the Akshaya project: day 1: overview
2. Day 2: technology
3. Day 3: entrepreneurs
4. Day 4: promotion
5. Day 5: training
6. Day 6: conclusions

In the past 5 days, I have tried to describe the project, mostly from a tactical level: how did they do things? I didn't speak much with the strategic people, and I hardly spoke to any users. Today, I'll talk a little bit about possible conclusions and lessons.