One of the coolio things we’ve got built into 1UP is the notion of a game expert. Any kid can declare themselves an “expert” of any of our 11,000+ games in our database.

When someone lands on a Game overview page - ’some’ of the experts for that game are displayed….. (can’t show them ALL = too many!)

I myself used to be an expert of Joust, Defender and Prof. Pac-Man. Maybe it was because I knew the folks who programmed those games (and got expert advice from) or because I happened to be a programmer myself of ProfPac - but anyway……

Finding expertise and help from the open distributed net will be aBIG business moving forward. And haviong standards to help us find each other and perhaps even barter help, will also be key….

So now Ming the Mchanic (Flemming Funch) picks up a thread started by Kevin Kelly and Seb on Open How-tos. How-to tutorials are a deep, rich kind of micro-content with very clear structures, intentions and applications.

This is a PERFECT new kind of effort.

It would also dovetail nicely with some requests I’ve been getting from people for a ‘OpenLists’ effort. Though Lists don’t really have a need for schemas, they’re certainly something that people want - which (by definition) should be enough. I just tell folks “get it into OPML” for now….

Here’s the post from Ming…..

From Seb Paquet:

Kevin Kelly asks:

“What are the best how-to books, videos, software, websites that you’ve ever seen? I don’t care what the topic is, I am primarily interested in the execution.”

Building a distributed body of how-tos would be another great application of structured blogging. Paging Marc Canter: must add Open How-Tos to your list of digital lifestyle standards.

Update: Jeremy picks up the digital lifestyle aggregator idea:

“Now imagine that profile as a sort of e-portfolio, containing most of the stuff you careed about, things you were thinking about, connecting you to everyone else who wanted to learn the same things, helping you find the information and resources that would help you learn… “

Yes, yes, yes. Of course we need all of that. A comprehensive open archive of the how-tos for … most everything. And an easy way of finding everybody who want to do the same things. And we might actually get to work.

[Ming the Mechanic]

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