… or how the web 2.0 initiatives are getting screwed by ignorant contributors. WondaWall is the first digital posterwall on the internet. At WondaWall you can paste your posters on your city’s wall as you would do in real life. Search for your city in the wallbrowser. If your city isn’t there you can demand it at ‘demand-a-wall’. If you want to place your own poster, just click on ‘post-a-poster’. If you click a poster, you have the option to go see the site of the party. And that’s where it all goes wrong.
See, the Web 2.0 is based on user contributions, and as it tries to be a mirror of real life, it happens to be reflecting nothing but junk. I saw this initiative pop-up a little while ago, and decided to tune in again to see if it was starting to work. And no. It’s not working. I browsed to Brussels which has at this time 72 posters. At first I thought: “Great!” but the second look made me realize once more that without a decent moderation, you can’t trust people to seriously contribute. I count 3 actual parties on 72 items. The rest are ads for SMS chatting, cams, dating or puzzle sites. That’s just too bad, because under normal self-regulating circumstances, this initiative could actually work. Then I went to check out other countries like Spain and Russia, and even Germany. Spain is still empty, but Russia has some nitwit’s posters that lead to a Dutch site. Germany has ads for some Japanese delivery service… boy oh boy. There’s work to be done here. How hard can it be to not screw up good things on the web?