The "No-Pie Zone", Technology, and Backyard Birdfeeders
Hi all,
So what is the "No-Pie Zone"? We'll get to that in a minute, but in the mean time consider the following... There's been an interesting development here... Folks from www.nowpublic.com contacted me concerning some pictures I'd taken, and they ended up using them. That's kind of cool.
But what's really interesting is the concept behind nowpublic.com... They call themselves a "participatory news network". Read that as a loose network of citizen journalists. But this isn't the first such flavor of that type of project. Consider:
- SETI. (A Web-based, wide distribution of computer users who bear the brunt of the calculations used in the search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.)
- Wikipedia. (A "community-built encyclopedia".)
- The Amazon.com customer rating system. (The name pretty much says it all.)
- eBay.com. (If you're unfamiliar with the global flea market that is eBay.com, you need to surf more.)
- uReport on Fox News and I-REPORT on CNN. (Viewer photographs and video contributions are used for major news items.)
- Blogs in general. (You're reading this, right?)
All pretty cool technology, right? But what does that have to do with the "No-Pie Zone"? Here's what... "No-Pie People" actually do stuff in their own homes and their own backyards. They hunt for E.T. They build the world's largest encyclopedia. They set new standards for journalism. They even build their own boats... And they're typically too busy to eat pie...
So, from the heaving masses who just like birds and getting stuff done...
We still ain't eatin' no stinkin' pie by the backyard feeder!
CapeCodAlan
