Stimulus Watch in O’Reilly Radar
If you are interested in how we built Stimulus Watch, check out a profile in O’Reilly Radar of the real heroes behind Stimulus Watch, developers Peter Snyder and Kevin Dwyer, who built the site from off-the-shelf parts and some ingenious coding. Here’s a bit:
None of these people knew each other previously. They were brought together by [a] blog post into a common effort. They used open source tools in rapid development. They plugged in off the shelf online social technologies (disqus, tumblr and mediawiki) to create a forum to discuss these local projects. They achieved this in seven weeks. In fact, according to Peter, “the real effort here was more like two weeks”
