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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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Amazing contributions - thank you
Day two and so much to blog about. Thank you for the quality and quantity of comments, not to mention the range.
One theme that is coming up is about developing the website. We’ve got a great team in Maverick and Juno, who are managing the social networking aspects of the site. They are keen to get on and flex their imaginations as to how to make this website work most effectively - they have been flat out developing the site - they did it from a standing start in three weeks, but are now keen to take the next step.
I really liked the idea that Daily Networker had of organising a get together to allow people to network face-to-face. I’m not sure he/she was volunteering, but if so, so much the better. If not, would anybody else like to volunteer? If you are interested please email at enquiries@cquestrate.com. My thoughts would be somewhere in the centre of London mid-week next week? We could set it up with a webcast and I’d be happy to answer questions - so much quicker and more compelling than typing!
One thing I’d like to clear up is that I haven’t got it in for the Nullabor Plain. There is no intention of performing this process in only one location. Given that the lime would need to be delivered over a very wide area it would make sense to have numerous sites where this process could take place dotted around the world. The reason I mentioned the Nullarbor Plain is to demonstrate that there is sufficient limestone available for this process.
Michael posted a comment yesterday about the experience people who own aquariums have of adding small quantities of Kalkwasser (calcium hydroxide solution) into their aquariums to control pH and add calcium ions. It would be great to get the experience of aquarium owners on this - can anyone post something to an aquarium forum or let us know where we should go?
We’ve had some posts in Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese - does anyone know a good automatic translation service we could link to the posts to allow us all to share information?
Finally, an apology for the broken link on the keep me informed link. We’ll get that fixed. Sorry.
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