Rob Stokes

Are communities important?

by Rob Stokes

2006/09/14

In reference to a comment on Gav’s previous post, Jason Bagley linked to this Coda post where things are going nuts over the new Ster Kinekor site.
As is often the case, the goodness is in the comments. There was some taunting coming from the Coda regulars, when in stepped Tim Bishop at Prezence with a good response to the criticism.

I have to be honest; he had me for the most part. It’s tough trying to build a website around a corporate’s specifications - sometimes you just can’t do the things that you know are best (total Flash is not one of these things). That was, until he came out with this little gem: "Building communities is not what SK needs to do or wants to do".

Respectfully Tim, I think you're wrong. In this day and age building communities is exactly what Ster Kinekor needs to be doing. How they do it is debatable, but bottom line - they do need to do it; their future depends on it.

Ster Kinekor, I’d really like to hear your thoughts…

Comments

Not being a very technical lady, I asked the tech team at Quirk what it's called when a site doesn't work without the WWW in the domain. For example: sterkinekor.com Gideon said "bad". Riaan said that the scientific term is "lame ass" or "DNS laziness" Apparently there isn't a specific technical term - I think we should invent one. Any good ideas?

Posted by Sarah on 2006/09/14

Sarah I would call it "stupidity".

Posted by Jacques Marneweck on 2006/09/29

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