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Roberts Creek, here we come!

Our house is sold. We're so excited to be moving on to the next stage of this process that's taken, oh, 3.5 years depending when you start counting :-)

Sometime soon I'll post more info about the FSBO experience we had. We learned a lot! Meanwhile, I'll just say that if you're thinking about selling your place as a FSBO you should check out eRealty.ca. Their service is excellent.

Wet Paint

Seems the folks at WetPaint.com have created an interesting and highly usable product. It's described at Go2Web20.net as "combining the best aspects of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks". People are using it for many things: a wiki about pregnancy, about dogs and so on. The best I've seen so far is about bad album covers. Some are disappointing, like one by someone who was treating it like a blog, without taking advantage of the features that make this different from a blog engine (like letting the community edit the pages). (Hint: if you want only to blog there's lots of other free sites that do that better.) Ironically this author thought themselves a user experience expert. But I digress.

I think anyone working to bring the wiki concept to non-techie users* are doing a good thing.

*"users"... they say the only ones who call customers users are drug pushers and software makers. Maybe we need a better word... customer works sometimes, but implies a commercial relationship. In this case I guess I could say audience but that leaves out the aspect that the audience may participate in the creation of a wiki. Anyone else have a better catch-all word for user/customer/participant/client/person-at-the-computer?

The Worst Website in the World

You gotta love Gerry McGovern. He's discovered The Worst Website in the World and had a good rant about it. Here's an excerpt to give you a taste:

What sort of vacuous vanity allows any organization to believe for one nanosecond that the customer has any remote Outer Mongolian desire to go on a journey and "take a look at the things we've done".

The $1-million Vancity Award

If you're a Vancity member, you might want to vote on the million dollar charity award. Of the finalists I'm most familiar with Quest Outreach which does fabulous work diverting food that would otherwise fill our landfills. Voting ends on Friday, October 13.
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