The yin and yang of content and its consumption

I had an interesting thing happen to me the other day that has given me some new ideas and inspiration.  I was at work and was talking to a coworker who had heard about my food blog (French dip sandwiches) and he said that it was his plan to go and eat some of the best ones.  I thought it was funny that he would do this, good for him, and I guess I was a little proud that he'd do that at all.  It will be fun to hear about his experiences and whether or not he agrees with the reviews.

But this idea of his made me realize that I was missing something.  "Recommendations" are an interesting thing.  I know the founder of this project Take Action Network and he's working with political action organizations to help them promote the political actions that people can do and make it easy for people to find, sign up for and do actions that are meaningful to them.  I run a meetup group and I want people I meet to be able to find our activities and events and sign up for them.  And I want people to be able to do this thing that Reed plans to do which is signing up for and eating a bunch of sandwiches (and then providing feedback).  In all, this leaves us with the following activities that people need to be able to do in a couple of roles.

• Role: content creator
• Actions
• Make content
• Event
• A meetup
• A podcast recording
• Recommendation - like French dip sandhiches
• People could sign up for it / say they want to do it
• They could do it
• Be a content consumer
• Role: content consumer
• Actions
• Look for / at content
• Sign up for things
• Give feedback
• Create content (become a content creator)

Yin yang, yo!