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explaining the technology centric approach, in reply to DanKeshed, that was the original conceptual plan that has evolved to more low-tech direction
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The moral of my story is that, while implementing barcode scanning is fun, it leaves the hardest and most important part of the problem (getting data about companies, products, etc.) totally untouched. This is the only part of the problem I want to touch, at least for now. I want to gather data, from all the sources on the [[essential projects]] and [[interesting projects]] and many other places. Is there any way that you can provide me an area where I can start on this? | The moral of my story is that, while implementing barcode scanning is fun, it leaves the hardest and most important part of the problem (getting data about companies, products, etc.) totally untouched. This is the only part of the problem I want to touch, at least for now. I want to gather data, from all the sources on the [[essential projects]] and [[interesting projects]] and many other places. Is there any way that you can provide me an area where I can start on this? | ||
::[[barcode]] scanning was an essential requirement back in the day when the [[Goals and means of Consumerium|original concept]] saw the daylight. It was inspired by information on [[Bluetooth]] since the greed and stupidity of [[mobile operators]] was proven in the [[UMTS]]-auctions that backfired seriously damaging the telecoms sector and the sinking ship took a lot of IT-companies with it leaving lot's of people unemployed. With [[bluetooth]] one needs no central operator and operating bluetooth links costs nothing. | |||
::The basic problem in being a [[conscientious consumer]] here-and-now is that most of the staff at stores may be part-time workers (working in stores is common with students) or they just don't have the means of acquiring more information exept what is written on the [[product]] [[label]]s so the idea was that if there is an [[information system]] dedicated to storing information that does not fit on the label or just isn't the kind of information that [[producer]]s want to include in the labels or totally different media such as [[video]] or [[audio]] then [[Consumer]]s know that they or the store staff '''can access''' so the [[motivation]] behind starting to develop this information system we call [[Consumerium]] for the time being. | |||
::In Information Technology there is a word '''interrogate''' that is used to express queries into a database ie. ''interrogating the db'' which is what you could do with [[Consumerium]] if/when it gets built but who'd want to ''interrogate a store clerk'' over some seemingly miniscule piece of information when most likely the clerk would have to respond that '''they (store staff) don't know, and have no system where to lookup what the consumer wants to know''' --[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 12:57, 13 Mar 2004 (EET) | |||
:Yup. Propose we move what's at [[Main Page]] to [[Main Page Developer]], and create a [[Main Page Researcher]] and [[Main Page Consumer]] right now, today. And that we change http://consumerium.org [[Front Page]] to quickly direct folks to the right one, and encourage mostly recruitment of the researchers we need. DanKeshet, you were involved in the creation of [[w:voting systems]], if the logs are right, and that project involved creating many standard pages with roughly the same things said about each system. That is the same problem as the [[Consumerium:intermediate page]]s with their common [[Consumerium:intermediate page format]]. These are the pages that a [[Consumerium:Researcher]] compiles, and a [[Consumerium:Consumer]] consults. Whether they consult them in the same form the researchers compile them is not important right now, that's the [[Consumerium buying signal]] problem. We can work on that at [[Main Page Developer]] while the rest proceeds in parallel. | :Yup. Propose we move what's at [[Main Page]] to [[Main Page Developer]], and create a [[Main Page Researcher]] and [[Main Page Consumer]] right now, today. And that we change http://consumerium.org [[Front Page]] to quickly direct folks to the right one, and encourage mostly recruitment of the researchers we need. DanKeshet, you were involved in the creation of [[w:voting systems]], if the logs are right, and that project involved creating many standard pages with roughly the same things said about each system. That is the same problem as the [[Consumerium:intermediate page]]s with their common [[Consumerium:intermediate page format]]. These are the pages that a [[Consumerium:Researcher]] compiles, and a [[Consumerium:Consumer]] consults. Whether they consult them in the same form the researchers compile them is not important right now, that's the [[Consumerium buying signal]] problem. We can work on that at [[Main Page Developer]] while the rest proceeds in parallel. | ||