Mohit SantRam

This past week was a productive week in social software. after last week’s disasterous meeting, where we couldn’t agree on a topic, we stripped down the idea down to the bare minimum and started over. I led a session where we though extensively about our project and our interests. We created a [...]

http://www.kottke.org/04/10/design-for-web-20
- Blogs democratized publishing, now “tags” could be considered to democratize information architecture. What’s behind this? Are powerful tools in the hands of millions really better than well-trained experts?
we discussed the idea of tagging objects and pieces in the web world for our project. is this something we should re-evaluate? I’m looking up [...]

I was reading some prior posts about the Social Software assignment. After we met on Monday with Clay and as a group after class, I came away thinking that we’re now ready to move forward. I already see some tension in the group because of our stutter-step. We’ve got only a few [...]

Sarit, Derek, and I met with Clay today. We spent time talking about our ideas and the impasse we had reached. We need to all be together if we are able to move the idea and project forward. So based on his suggestion, we rolled back our thoughts and tried to attack [...]

We’ve been trying to hammer out our ideas for Monday’s class. This afternoon, Sari, Derek, and I met to talk about our direction. Dedi also met with us, but wasn’t able to attend until the end because of Mid Terms. Here are some pictures from our session.
Whiteboard #1:

Whiteboard #2:

I’m worried about the [...]