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Re: Perspectives on a Lego Community Website
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lugnet.general, lugnet.org
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Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:12:24 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney wrote:
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I have more on the whole concept coming up in a later post, but just want to
bounce off of this idea. Calendar links could be entered in a central spot -
that would be good. But, taking it a step further (and underscoring that the
central site is a foundation to build off of), web objects could be
developed so a club could stick their interactive events calendar on their
homepage.
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The whole concept of web objects rests on creating some community standards for
database interactivity and website interoperability, etc.
What is the Stud?
Lego is a perfect example. The stud is an interface standard. Each brick has
a way of connecting to it, the bricks agree on the standard, in geek terms they
implement the standard.
More importantly, as time when on Lego implemented more standards like the width
of a minifig hand or rod, axles, gears, trains, etc. These things all rely on
connectivity via interface standards.
Standards are not rules that you have to follow, they are techniques to achieve
interactivity across multiple domains. If you are a pessimist you might see
standards as limiting creativity, but if you are an optimits like me you see
them as fundamentally enabling creativity, and specifically new kinds of
creativity that you can’t achieve without standards.
-paul
(custom sig image courtesy of CGidd)
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| (...) Ok, so if I am following what you are saying correctly then; If a standard for event announcement was formalized, then as each webmaster updated their own page using that standard the community calander would notice and update itself (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org, FTX)
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| (...) I have more on the whole concept coming up in a later post, but just want to bounce off of this idea. Calendar links could be entered in a central spot - that would be good. But, taking it a step further (and underscoring that the central site (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org)
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