[alt-media-res] Fw: the new drupal ifiwatch.tv - URGENT feedback please!

[zoe]

hi again
sorry to rush you but I have been given a deadline of later today for final
feedback
(the developers' wife is about to give birth andI think he needs to get this
work out of the way!)
so we would appreciate hearing from some of you about our labour of love!
cheers
zoe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "zoe" <zoe at esemplastic.net>
To:
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 9:49 PM
Subject: the new drupal ifiwatch.tv - feedback please!


> greetings people
>
> in recent months, Morihiro Sugimoto has been doing wonderful things
> recreating www.ifiwatch.tv in the drupal content management system. the
goal
> is greater ease of use and more effective tools, connections, help etc.
>
> the new site can be seen at
>
> http://ifiwatch2.clients.codepositive.com
>
> as you'll see, his work is not yet complete, for example we do not yet
have
> video feeds coming in and there are various gaps and glitches. but my
> feeling is that this model already shows amazing potential, and now is the
> time for us as prospective users etc to test out the basic functionality,
> see what is missing, not clear etc.
>
> to log in and test the data upload forms, (please don't delete anything
but
> do feel free to add relevant video listings, upload missing images and/or
> correct any details you know to be wrong!)
>
> username: zoeyoung
>
> password: 12345678
>
> In particular, can I draw your attention to a really promising new tool?
> when you select a keyword from the tag cloud or perform a search, you can
> make the results of this search into an RSS feed which (using a feed
reader
> or aggregator) will then update you (your computer, your website..) with
> latest information, videos etc on that specific topic. you have the option
> to refine your search with one or more additional keywords, this too can
be
> made into an RSS feed. So, if your work is focused on the EIB, for
example,
> you can subscribe to a feed of latest videos on the EIB, or if you are
> interested only in climate change, the IMF and SubSaharan Africa, you can
> subscribe to a feed on that.... please do help me to test this out and
let's
> see where we can get to with this!
>
> Mori will complete this phase of his work in the next week or two (there's
> no more budget to pay him now, he's already done wonders on so little...),
> so this is the time for us to engage and provide feed back. Attached is a
> doc summarising my notes so far, please send your comments to me so that I
> can collate and send them onto Mori.
>
> thanks, I hope you are even half as excited about this as I am!
>
> zoe
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Morihiro Sugimoto" <mori at diasporan.net>
> To: "zoe young" <zoe at esemplastic.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 6:48 PM
> Subject: Changes to be made
>
>
> > Hi Zoe,
> >
> > Thanks for your typing effort today. Glad I was able to finally show it
to
> > you.
> >
> > Attached is a list of changes to be made. Please look through the site
and
> > add more if you think the change is necessary. This will be the last
> chance
> > for you to make any change to the system.
> >
> > However, please note that some change require much time and effort. In
> that
> > case I will not be able to implement it. I have already spent so much
time
> > for developing and importing data that this project has already exceeded
> the
> > budget.
> >
> > Have a nice weekend.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Mori
>