Re: "Planners" (original link)
It used to be Top 10 Lists. David Letterman still uses Top 10 Lists, but ever since I saw High Fidelity, it's been Top 5 Lists for me.
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I see these Top 5 lists (or however many #'s you wish) to be a form of Reviews - which we've idetified as another 'blog-type' (or shall I say 'micro-content' type.)
If Blogs are unto themselves, a type of micro-content, well then shouldn't conversations, reviews or media objects ALSO be 'micro-content' types? Even employee records or meetings. Or entire projects or fund raising efforts.
Organizing, creating and maintaining complex, on-line communities, services or content should all be as easy as creating email or a word processing document.
By identifying existing notions that we're comfortable with and conotate some well understood meaning, we can use these phrases (such as journals, reviews, conversations or projects) - to encapsulate a whole series of steps, tasks and detail work that must be executed and supported to implement these sorts of interactive experiences.
That said, you could imagine a tool that shared Top 5 Lists or compared them or even had contests as to who's Lists were the most tasteful, most cynical or truly exploitative. [Marc's Voice]
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