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One of the other things I’m involved in is I’m on the board of Ignition NW, a local community development nonprofit.

People were concerned that the tone of the Organization’s blog (which I’m responsible for as the secretary of the organization) was too formal, so I’ve started pushing out updates like this. It’s interesting how much the desire for tone varies, and it’s especially interesting when you have an organization like INW whose site is for disparate audiences (members, government agencies, other art and burning man organizations) who are used to seeing different tones.

Managing tone is in some ways as important as being consistently on message. I watch it carefully, because I’m prone to subtle jokes, wordplay, and sarcasm when talking. Anyway, if you’re in the area, you should come to the town hall tonight.

The Ignition NW Board had its spring retreat at Portaplaya’s family’s cabin two weekends ago. The board has two of these a year, where we review the stuff we said we’d do in the last six months, plan for the future, and write things on our knuckles.

The town hall’s tonight, and there will be a lot of information about the stuff we’ve done, and the stuff we’re going to do. There will also be presentations from Burners without Borders and community members talking about what they’re doing. If you join us in the CHAC Lower Level afterwards, you can probably get stuff written on your knuckles too.

The town hall is at the Capitol Hill Arts Center. 1321 12th Avenue Seattle. Starts at 7pm sharpish.

Thanks,

Corprew Reed, Ignition NW Secretary.

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I’m currently pushing features out like a madman at gameofthe.net and related projects. There are actually four different applications (‘website’) behind gameofthe.net, each of which displays information from amazon and various RSS feeds in different ways (‘different slices of the same data.’) Over time, I think this will be an interesting resource for people to work with. I don’t know if this is a ‘startup’ in the classical sense¹, but it’s an interesting project for me from an information science/information theoretic point of view.

Stepping back, it’s been interesting how sensitive this project has been to its initial conditions. A few small changes in user sampling has caused things to go down completely different paths than I originally would have expected. I think this is, in many ways, useful as it enabled me to get user feedback early on. However, given a slightly different sample set of initial users, the direction would have been quite different.

¹ In fact it’s not, as I’ve been at startups and this isn’t it.

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Until then, I will work on the remainder of the new features list for 3.0 as I have time. Right now, I’m busy applying for jobs. Want to hire a corprew? I’ll send you a resume. There’s one online as well, but I have a couple of different ones for different sorts of jobs (as I can be everything from a Web Systems Director to a Tech Lead depending on the size and type of company you have.) Full time or contract.

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