4 days left to back the bucket

July 19th, 2010 • posts i've written

Thursday is your final day to back The Bucket Brigade – and your final day to join the incredible group of people (a Twitter list of backers) that are supporting the project.

Visit the Kickstarter project page now.

And if you’ve already supported the project, please consider taking a few moments this week to urge anyone else you know to join our cause.

More reasons to back the bucket, from actual supporters:

• “Whilst Bud’s doing the research and writing and thinking, he’ll be working with the folk who back him at the ‘editorial’ level to sense check/input/read/think/suggest. By being part of that part of the project, and given the sorts of folk on the editorial team, it’s a brilliant opportunity to look at the world again, and reorientate my head. So I guess, in a sense, the $100 for the editorial level is the cheapest course I’ll ever pay for…” – John Willshire
• “Bud has an idea, and it might be right and it might be wrong and no one’s going to know for sure until we get him in the room with enough of the right people. Plane tickets cost money, but they beat the hell out of simply insisting that your idea is right. … More significant, though, is this: ideas like these demand rigor. They demand smart people who have ideas of their own, with designs on challenging the ideas we started with until something far more refined and interesting takes form. In this case, that process will serve as both the opening chapter of the final product and a measure of the integrity of the text itself, with the success of the Editorial Board structure in many ways determining the strength of the final product.” – Ian Fitzpatrick
• “Lots of people think (and talk) about writing a book (including me) so my last (and possibly overriding) reason is because he’s got off his butt and done something about it” – Neil Perkin

Updates on the project:

• Last Friday I completed my first interview for the book with Tobias Peggs, VP & GM of OneRiot – a realtime search engine. Tobias actually earned his PhD working with some of the underlying concepts I’m following for the book, mainly classifier systems. He not only had some great insights to offer, but he was so excited about the idea for the book that he decided to back the book and become a member of the Editorial Board. How cool is that? By the way, all Editorial Board Members will have access to interview transcripts and I’ve already posted the transcript from my interview with Tobias in the private community that all E.B. members will be invited to by the end of the week.
• Next week I’m headed to The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center in Boston to finally meet my academic heroes Nancy Baym and danah boyd and to continue my research for the book with their colleagues. And in case you’re wondering how the funds for the book will be used – this single trip is going to cost me more than $700. Hopefully I can plan future trips out a bit more and save some money, but needless to say, this process will be expensive.

Related posts:

1. quick update on the bucket brigade
2. the bucket brigade on psfk
3. why you should back the bucket brigade

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