June 15, 2002
Message Board Life Cycle

Matt Rice is ranting about The Flash Message Board Life Cycle over at SwfNews. I think he has formulated the life cycle of a successful message board pretty good, be it a Flash message board or a message board for anything else. I have seen this in news groups, web boards and to some extent in mailing lists.

The problem is in the numbers, and the solution? Probably to make a taxation system of some kind. Personally I am of the opinion that users that just consume should have to pay for their consumption, whilst users that contribute to a message board should be paid for it. It does not necessarily have to be with money, but there should be a cost/benefit to using/providing for a message board. A taxation system would probably keep in check the cricket-pest like conditions that message board experience when Phase 4 (see Matts message board system) kicks in.

Posted by jarle at 04:25 PM | Comments (4)
Phil Chung is looking for Flash feeds for his Flash RSS reader

Just a heads up, if you have a Flash blog, and would like to be included in the channel list of the Flash RSS Reader soon to be released in a new and improved version, then you should go over to Philter's Blog and let him know you exist. Be aware that his RSS reader currently requires your feed to be in the RSS 0.91 format.

Posted by jarle at 04:05 PM | Comments (2)
Flash infographic of the Enron story

A good example of how Flash effectivly can be used to illustrate a story. MSNBC has made a presentation of the Enron story. What was Enron and how could the scandal unfold.

[Via Robert Hall]

Posted by jarle at 04:01 PM