[Campaigns-l] looking at ajax technology

[Janet Hawtin]

Just to put an extra twist in the tail, I went to an IBM event tonight
where they were demonstrating ajax based technologies (similar to the
way that googlemail works, interactive material which doesnt require a
reload of the page.

One of the key examples was a wiki which included 'mashup' information from
googlemaps plus realestate info, or mapping plus dynamic weather
update for that area as a feed of gifs. Keep an eye out for the web 2
demo by IBM if it comes your way.

This was one of the example sites http://dojotoolkit.org/
IBM have someone working with this team to contribute internationalisation
and accessibility. They said they are expecting something people can
try out to be available in a month.

Wondered if campaign wiki could be a nice showcase project for that
kind of thing. Overlays of geographic data and population information
and voting or maps relating to specific local topics which connect to
images of specific things, places or people which are important.
Tables, maps graphs.

Drawbacks for campaignwiki?

I'm guessing the complexity could make it possible to lose the
dialogue with each other and end up saturated in information from one
perspective. At least this might make it possible to have better
information from one perspective.

The other is that the text based wiki is workable with low bandwidth
and means we have to be able to communicate clearly with text.

Also dont know about how the $ factor would work as IBM were talking
about it as a service. I'll leave that up to more technically savvy
persons than me to comment.

Just thought that this might be an interesting pilot for the technology.
Would be fun to test, not sure if it is feasible =)

Janet