The basic goal of the site is to have a place where people can create content that would otherwise be deleted by Wikipedia; no concerns about notoriety and no pressure to expand articles. I don't really have any plans to impose any rules on the site, for now I want to focus on collecting the long-tail of articles that doesn’t exist on the web.
There is also a micro-blogging component to the site. Depending on the context attached to the article a series of buttons appear on the article page(By default just "Love" & "Hate", I left out selecting contexts for simplicity and data quality concerns), clicking on them creates a post on your profile: http://www.stubia.com/@abe
Let me know if you find that other link, I would be interested in taking a look at it.
Capturing knowledge that doesn't fit Wikipedia is one of my goals as well.
My hunch is that because such topics may be more obscure, a little more space/context, and some new modes of search/display, will prove helpful for readers/contributors.
As someone seriously considering giving this a go (our consulting business is about to complete it's first year, we have built up a good war chest in the bank without any investment, and we're planning our web app right now), I would be foolish not to listen to the advice and experience (with a grain of salt) of those who have come before me and succeeded. Anything that helps me avoid mistakes that others have figured out is a good thing.
The comment above - while maybe tongue in cheek - is short-sighted to say the least.
I don't think it was short-sighted. I think his point, while partly intended to be funny, of course, was that spending 12 hours to inject a certain amount of information is inefficient if the same substance could have been gleaned much more quickly in the form of concise, curated chunks of text.
Unless you spend a lot of time in the car! :) I listen to 1 hour of audio each day whilst driving. This will be ideal now that I'm about to finish one of the Warren Buffet audio books
A: Don't be pessimistic and also, be analytical enough to understand that listening to audio doesn't necessarily distract you from creating great things.
OS X's biggest downside is the same core problem of the Windows interface: having icons, menus and windows bolted on to a desktop is incredibly inelegant, redundant and wasteful of screen space.
There is also a micro-blogging component to the site. Depending on the context attached to the article a series of buttons appear on the article page(By default just "Love" & "Hate", I left out selecting contexts for simplicity and data quality concerns), clicking on them creates a post on your profile: http://www.stubia.com/@abe
Let me know if you find that other link, I would be interested in taking a look at it.