Editing User talk:DanKeshet/scratchpad

Many orgs already gather data.  See [[essential projects]] and [[interesting projects]].  But they don't put it in a format that can be filtered for one-purchase at a time for various people's criteria.  That's the objective here.  At least so far.

And, yes, you're right, the [[Signal Wiki]] will be simple.  It will not look like this [[Development Wiki]].  It probably won't use the same software, for instance.  Ideally it would use what [[Metaweb]] creates.

On the UI issue:

There's no reason not to distribute data on what's in the store in book form, even customized book form.  You could for instance slide a [[frequent buyer card]] into a slot, and get a printed book with [[price premium]] information customized to you, or generic information like a score.  It might even get printed at the [[retail shelf]] someday if some nation decides to require it - the first step to [[Consumerium Country]].  There's no bias as to how the signal is delivered.  That's the main reason the language IS so abstract right now, actually.

If you think the existing default end user vision is wrongheaded, well, write up some [[worst cases]] about it failing.  Otherwise there's nothing specific to discuss.  Write up some [[best cases]] with a book or guide at the shelf.  The whole reason to solicit these [[use case]]s is to figure this kind of stuff out.

But there are several points of [[Consumerium Service access]], and they would have to key on some product identifier, and the [[barcode]] is the standard one.  We also know that it gets scanned at the [[checkout counter]], so it might just be a matter of adding up a [[score]], like a game.  There might be benefits or a reward scheme for buying moral products.  But sometimes just to know your score is valuable.  There's merit to treating it like a game, where you are EXPECTED to memorize or just shift habits so as to buy more ethically.

But all of these things would still require someone to [[barcode scan]] to be sure what the product was.

:This gets done anyways in the [[checkout counter]], by the store staff, thus getting the [[GTIN]] codes transferred en masse to your mobile terminal [[Checkout Consumerium]] will allow for you to download your [[list of things you bought]] to your home computer and view the [[Consumerium buying signal]] from there a posteriori and '''use this to change your shopping habits the next time you go to the store'''

:If you can get a [[list of things you bought]] in digital form as envisioned in [[Checkout Consumerium]] you can pick that book/leaflet/magazine up at home or even better download the [[GTIN]] codes to your home computer and start browsing away what you have. --[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 10:35, 12 Mar 2004 (EET)

And it's a fantasy to believe that companies whose behaviour is exposed by the [[Consumerium Services]] as undesirable would not try to interfere legally.  We would have to be damn sure of our data.  This isn't a [[Wikipedia]] type wankfest of amateurs.  This data is supposed to be reliable enough to bet on.  The whole [[ConsuML]] proposal is about drawing on data from many sources to dump into [[Consumerium:intermediate page]]s, and hopefully not creating new data that would have to be verified by volunteers here.