Welcome to the Cquestrate blog
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International interest in Cquestrate
Given the potential magnitude of the Cquestrate project we expected interest in this website to come from around the world and, glancing throught the website statistics, that’s certainly been borne out.
So far we’ve had 12,726 visitors from 63 countries with the USA, the UK, Germany, Canada and Australia making up the top five. The intro video on the homepage has been viewed almost 3,000 times.
Although the working language on the Cquestrate website is English, the website has already been written about in several other languages:
- It’s interesting to see a non-English speaking country providing the 3rd highest number of visitors and that’s thanks to an excellent article on the German website Jetzt.de
- Within 24 hours of the project launching publicly someone had translated the press release into Spanish.
- Another Spanish article appeared on Neofronteras.com
- Lenta.ru ran an article in Russia
- The French version of Gizmodo featured Cquestrate and there was also a discussion in a French forum
- We’ve also come across mentions in Japanese and Dutch.
As and when I come across articles about Cquestrate they are tagged using delicious and then featured on the Cquestrate links page.
We may get to the stage where it would be useful to have the content on this site translated into as many languages as possible so our international visitors can get the most from Cquestrate. That may be part of the next phase of the website. If you have any other suggestions to develop the site please use the comments below or go to the dedicated website development page.
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Conversations about Cquestrate
Cquestrate launched just over two weeks ago and we’ve already seen a great level of discussion on the website. Some of the comments and contributions have started to move the project forward in encouraging ways.
However, discussions about Cquestrate aren’t restricted to this website and it has been fascinating to read, and contribute to, what has been going on elsewhere. Here’s a very small sample:
- Alexis Madrigal covered Cquestrate on the Wired Science blog
- FT.com’s Undercover Economist mentioned Cquestrate after meeting Tim Kruger
- Larvatus Prodeo has hosted a long-running, well-informed debate
- A Slashdot post on the day that Cquestrate launched has so far attracted 874 comments (some funny, some actually quite helpful)
- On the day of launch, Cquestrate was featured in the top 5 ‘upcoming’ environmental stories on Digg
- Cquestrate has made news abroad and has been picked up on in France by Gizmodo.fr and in the djibnet.com forum. Also in Spain on NeoFronteras.
When I come across anything useful I use del.ici.ous to ‘tag’ the page. Links to these tagged pages are collected automatically on our links page for all to see.
Unfortunately, it can be tricky to find all of these conversations. However, it’s important we do our best to follow them – we don’t want to miss out on some potentially valuable information.
If you are part of a community that has discussed Cquestrate or if you’ve blogged about the project, please let us know in the comments below.
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Cquestrate.com launches!
The site has been launched! It’s been very exciting finally seeing the website move from the development site over to the internet. It’s been picked up by a few blogs – prize for “First Mention of Cquestrate on the Internet” goes to FEASTA – and someone has already translated the press release from Chemistry and Industry into Spanish (you can see that at Iconoclast.com).
The last couple of days have been hectic, doing the final tweaks – many thanks to Chris Unitt for all his hard work. The fact that Vimeo was unavailable over the weekend just added to the fun!
Looking forward to everyone’s thoughts and comments. It’s not just the idea that we are developing in an open source way – it’s also the website, so please let us know what you like and what you think we should do to improve it.
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Getting ready for launch
With a couple of days left before the website launches we’re just finalising content, producing explanatory videos and making sure that everything is working properly.
We’ve had to move very quickly to ensure that everything is in place as soon as possible. With the first phase of the website almost complete it’ll soon be a case of making sure that word goes out to the people who can help further this project.
The scope is so large that we need a wide spread of expertise – if you, or anyone you know anyone, can help in any way then we look forward to your input. Have a look at the questions we need to answer and leave your comments on the relevant pages.
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