Hey everyone,
OK, so I think I found this fantom locker site, and it no way is it similar. http://www.livezone.com/girltalk/locker.html.
The site is about like healty eating and exercise and body image. Yawn.
Kim, if you think Dianne was talking about another site please let me know so I can try to find that one.
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ys - i heard from Dean Lynch - she said this wasn't the exact one - she was remembering something a newspaper did for 6 schools in their area - that kids could put stuffin lcokers - it was primitively done (more than a couple of years ago)
so similar
like this one you mention is similar - except for the news piece
does this mean it's too similar to be innovative? or can we really up the anty with the news aspect of the site to differentiate. If a newspaper did this years ago, does that mean it failed or they gave up? If it was done years ago, can we find any records of it?
I really hope that Dean Lynch wasn't inferring that Locker Talker was going to look like this. This is like a site you could make as a 10-year-old using the internet for the first time. Yuck.
i dno't think she was saying you guys were going to create some thing like this - just that other people realized that kids like lockers and persoanlizing stuff
when i said "so similar" I think i meant that the site you guys found was similar to what she remembered, but not hte exact site and she couldn't remember which paper
interesting question - if a paper did it earlier and let it drop - can we think about why? Cause that might lead us to similar problems with this project?
I'm going to make an assumption in responose to Kim's question and I could be way off base, but depending on how long this suggested site had been around, it could have been lacking the non-news appeal. I think people are overly eager to get children/this demograhpic engaged in the news and may try to do it in a too upfront manner. I know some people were opposed to the initial audience research Kim had us conduct post-Ithaca, but I really think it's helped me a lot in developing this idea - know what's out there, what they want and what they use. From there, we've been able to integrate news into the "funness" of sites, instead of integrating fun into news. I really think the two are different, and from our prospect of trying anything to get them engaged in some form of news, we took the right approach at that intersection.
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