boards.ie SIOC Data Competition moves start date to 1st September

Signups are now being accepted for the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition, and data sets will be made available to verified accounts for download from the 1st September 2008. The new closing date for the competition is the 31st October 2008.
The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway is running a unique competition from [...]

Designing for a non-participatory audience

boards.ie developer Ross Duggan pointed me to two interesting pages today, the first from 2006:
Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute by Jakob Nielsen
where I liked the quote:
How to Overcome Participation Inequality
You can’t.

and one from this month:
The 3 Loops of Designing for Audience by Gregor Hochmuth
Feedback loops contribute greatly to a user’s sense of Audience [...]