Comments on: Creative Spaces Beta: Fail

By: bad idea jeans | suggested donation

bad idea jeans | suggested donation — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:45:44 +0000

[...] Solid critique over at New Curator from a week or two ago about the Creative Spaces Beta release by …. The project sounds well and good “throwing open the collections,” and so forth, but in reality, it seems to amount to no more than a camouflaged google search. [...]

By: Mike Lowndes

Mike Lowndes — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:14:54 +0000

While I sympathise with the team (I know the way this project worked), the search /resutsl experience is so poor / broken and unlike the origianl visionings that they are likely to kill off the site before it gains much momentum. Real shame but I wish it luck. Herding cats on crack (either) does not _begin_ to describe the challenge.

By: Mike Ellis

Mike Ellis — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:55:28 +0000

I agree, and have posted my thoughts here. Ditto, I agree about ArtBabble - great site, well produced, beautifully designed - and with a real, genuine sense of community.

By: Past Thinking » Blog Archive » Creative Spaces - some more thoughts

Past Thinking » Blog Archive » Creative Spaces - some more thoughts — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:29:16 +0000

[...] of the criticism (e.g. Mike Ellis, New Curator) about Creative Spaces is that people have, when faced with the homepage for the first time, not [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:44:24 +0000

I agree! I wasn’t too impressed, there was little to no description as to even what a “notebook” was, and the groups left much to be desired or shared. Hell, there was even an entire group dedicated to Adolf Hitler, which…don’t get me wrong, is fairly fascinating, but come on…Adolf? I spent about 10 minutes on it, and I really don’t intend on going back! ArtBabble.org FTW!