[idioma original: inglês] Bram - Freesound - freesound.iua.upf.edu

Entrevista realizada por email por Karla S. Brunet - Outubro 2005

You say “Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.” What inspired you to do the project? How/from where did you get the idea?

Bram: The initial idea to make a shared database of sounds came from Xavier Serra, the director of our Group. I took this idea and shaped it into a practical, networked database and did the research to figure out the legalities and technicalities of freesound.
My background is collaborative sites (http://www.smartelectronix.com and http://www.musicdsp.org) so I was lucky to be the right person at the right time to work on this when I sent my CV to MTG!

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[idioma original: inglês] Dietmar Offenhuber - Loop City - http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~didi/

Entrevista realizada por email por Karla S. Brunet - Outubro 2005

Where/how did you come up with the idea for Loop city? Were you interested in cyclical events, social architecture? Were you stimulated by other collaborative projects?

Dietmar: it is part of an ongoing interest in urban research - i already touched the topic in my previous work - wegzeit, where i made a map based on way descriptions over phone (see residence.aec.at/wegzeit) the disadvantage over other projects is that it was not really a collaborative project, i had to ask for interviews. Similar projects conducted by a group (such as the glowlab etc) can develop more dynamic, thats the advantage.

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[idioma original: inglês] Rob Malda - Slashdot - http://slashdot.org

Entrevista realizada por email por Karla S. Brunet - Outubro 2005

Where/how did you come up with the idea for Slashdot? Were you interested in discussion, free speech…? Were you stimulated by other collaborative projects?

Rob: Slashdot organically grew out of a number of projects I had started or been a part of over the years. I ran a BBS in middle school and high school. I was an active user of usenet. And I ran what today is called a "Blog" for some time on my personal homepage. All of these things came together and Slashdot was what came out.

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[idioma original: espanho] Sebastian Molina - Mundo al Reves - http://mundoalreves.com

Entrevista realizada por email por Karla S. Brunet - Novembro 2005

¿De donde ustedes sacaran la idea del mundoalreves.com?

Sebastian: La idea de mundalreves.com nació ante la necesidad de contar con un medio de comunicación que de manera más abierta, nos brinde la posibilidad de compartir algunos materiales, escritos, poesía, etc. Ante eso y al desconocer en profundidad los alcances que podríamos darle a ese medio, lanzamos, al inicio de la página, 3 preguntas (y la posibilidad de responderlas) que en ese momento eran todo lo que era la página. Las 3 preguntas fueron: "Un mundo al revés ¿Por qué?", "Un mundo al revés ¿Para qué?" y "Un mundo al revés ¿Cómo?".
De las cientos de respuestas que nos dieron a esas 3 simples preguntas salió el concepto completo de lo que hoy es mundoalreves.com. Tenía que ser un medio de comunicación que apunte a una comunicación más abierta, humana y participativa. A la vez, debería enmarcarse en los conceptos de "Respeto" y "Tolerancia" pues la diversidad de respuestas, puntos de vista y opiniones era inmensa y todos querían tener su espacio en este medio que nacía. A la vez, vimos la necesidad de contar con la posibilidad de que el visitante participe directamente compartiendo sus materiales, comentando los materiales de otros y haciendola propia la página. Por el público que participó, nos dimos cuenta que principalmente teniamos que dirigirnos principalmente a jóvenes.

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[idioma original: inglês] Josh On - Communiculture - http://www.communiculture.org
Entrevista realizada por email por Karla S. Brunet - Novembro 2005

Where/how did you come up with the idea for Comuniculture? Were you interested in continuums? Were you stimulated by other collaborative projects?

Josh: Amy came up with the name communiculture - she had used it for some other community based projects she had been doing at Futurefarmers. The basic idea for the site came from my (Josh) degree show project at the Royal College of Art in London. I had made a site called Prototype World - which had avatars, continuums and collaborative storytelling. The idea was not to make a stand alone website - but something that could work with existing online groups providing tools to augment them. We haven't done this yet.
The idea for continuums was taken directly from a technique used in sociodrama - a group process created by Jacob Moreno.

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[idioma original: português] Ricardo Ruiz - conversê - http://converse.org.br

Entrevista realizada por email por Karla S. Brunet - Setembro 2005

De onde/como surgiu a idéia do conversê?

Ricardo: servir como plataforma de conversa para envolvidos com o prometo pontos de cultura de todo o brasil, entre outros.

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[idioma original: inglês] Matthew Haughey - MetaFilter - http://www.metafilter.com

Entrevista realizada por email por Karla S. Brunet - Novembro 2005

In your about page you define Metafilter as “This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members” Where how did you come up with the idea for Metafilter?

Matthew: At the time I came up with MetaFilter (late 1998) weblogs were still in their infancy, and the successful ones were done by single authors that, while posting short chunks of interesting news and tidbits, were quite prolific. I knew that I couldn't match that kind of output and decided to create a weblog that any member could post to, figuring 4-5 people could probably create a fairly interesting weblog.

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