Thanks, David. I'm still trying to figure out what to do next. A bit over-extended given proposals, thesis writing, and normal day job activities, but we press on.

David,
I see in your blog that you are able to use an iframe to transclude a map. It strikes me that the GENIS project could make ready use of that capability. Right now, there is no easily apparent way to know which particular Resource URL to address in a particular iframe for a specific map found at debategraph.org. Is there an easy way to identify a specific map for transclusion?

Cool! I just tried it at
http://www.topicspaces.org:8080/story/1191b4dc833.11c0bf3a_Story

Thanks!
Jack

Thanks David for getting us all connected. If the 24th comes open, I'll update right away.

David,
thanks. I am very excited to join this initiative

Luca

Thanks for the welcome, David. Simon Buckingham Shum pointed me here. In the past, we've talked about tryingto get something going on argument mapping the climate change debate, and it's great to see things are now gelling. My own background is in that no-man's-land between the environmental science community and the informatics community, so maybe I can help in as an interpreter in both directions.

Thanks David. And how do you do?

I'm eager to learn more about your efforts. I will be exploring more over the next week. Right now I am loaded with extra teaching duties, carrying a three-course load vs. the normal two. So I don't have as much time to inhale everything as I would like.

George

Thanks, David, and Mark. I hope to help out on the Compendium front. Now if I could just get my login to work...

Hi David, Thanks for the welcome. I am interested in community management, collaborative types of work and learning and other areas of Web 2.0. I have worked in tech and telecom and while working in wireless became interested in alt energies (because a network without a source of energy isn't much of a network). -- I was looking at a review of a new book on the evolution of technology and the Internet by Jonathan Zittrain ("The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It") and found a link to your site in one of the comments reviewing the book. -- Your research sounds very interesting. -- By the way, are you on Twitter? It might be another media form to add to your research repertoire. I have been using it for a few months, following people in Web 2.0 and new media areas for the most part. If interested, I am @4byoung if you want to follow. Check out some of the people I follow and see if you want to start by following them.
Also, here's a link to one Twitter user's reason for using Twitter that may resonate with this group: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6axb5x or http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/04/my-twitter-stor.html

New ways to measure and illustrate the social graph.

Visualization of an inventor's network:

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=546&index=546&domain=

Here's a larger group of graphics.


http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

I subscribe to a number of tech and Web 2.0 email updates. The original story on Jonathan Zittrain was here:

http://www.networkworld.com/chat/archive/2008/042908-zittrain-chat-innovation.html?netht=ts_042908&nladname=042908dailynewspmal

or at this tiny URL:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/5rgnre

That lead to a link at Amazon with a reader review at the bottom of the page.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300124872/ref=nosim/fusion0e

In turn, there are comments to the reviewer's post in which he responds here:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3FGABHK9Y6FP2/ref=cm_cr_rev_detmd_pl?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdMsgNo=3&cdPage=1&cdSort=oldest&cdMsgID=MxQS6TIF74OEYR#MxQS6TIF74OEYR

or tiny URL:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6ghtjp

...and you will see that you are mentioned there with a link.

"...Check out http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/sbs/research/hc4d.html this guy is utterly brilliant and on target..."

I came across a few more items today on something called "mimetic conflict" that I thought you might find interesting.

It is an interesting theory on conflicts in groups.

http://www.ravenfoundation.org/faq.aspx


www.mit.edu/~lindsayj/Projects/LindsayMimeticTheory_031008.doc


http://www.doremiarts.com/Classes%20and%20Talks%20on%20Mimetic%20Theory.htm


http://remarkk.com/2007/02/25/essay-what-is-an-open-creative-community/

Hi David,

Found another link I thought you might find of interest.

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/topichub/5kPCKsOtha6drVEN7AUK2~

or here is a snip url ('snurl")

http://peek.snurl.com/26y62 [services_alphaworks_ibm_com]

It looks like the site gives people the option to create a topic area and create their own visualizations either with their data sets or your own.

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Create_a_Visualization.html

or with Snurl

http://peek.snurl.com/26y6y [services_alphaworks_ibm_com]

Hi David, I've done a quick tour through the profiles, just to get a feel for who is here, and am part way through the forum messages and videos. Over the last few years I've slowly been "brooding" what I recently realized is an "intentional framework" which can help address climate change and sustained earth care, which for me at least provides context for the effort here to provide tools for discourse to make collaborative change more effective. I'll get back with more shortly.

Hi David, Check out this site. Enter the words "Climate Change" and see what happens
http://taggalaxy.de/
Sometimes the right visualization can help in illustrating complex problems/systems.
-Brenda

Hi David,

Yes indeed. Debategraph looks way interesting for a lot of what I do. I look forward to exploring this site over the next few months.

David,

Please forgive my long delay in getting back to your comment. The Apollo energy project was an idea I wanted to present - not just as a technology effort, but as a atotal change in how humans use 'resources' on the planet, and as such goes way beyond a 'simple' moon-shot.

We are treating 'spaceship earth' as if it was designed and intended to serve us - which is a near fatal falacy. Ecosystem services need to be understood and respected - and humans need to quickly, very quickly, figure out how we get this 'mission' back on track.

The preso has a paper that goes with it (more technical) but these iseas should be built on.

-rdc

Hi David,

Found a site I thought you might find interesting. It's a search site called Summize that searches the live Twitter (http://twitter.com) public timeline for posts on a person, a topic or a phrase.

I searched for "climate change" and you can see results with this link:

http://summize.com/search?q=climate+change

or you can use this link:

http://is.gd/uEo-

-Brenda


Open the link in a separate tab and you will be able to update with new links.

Hi Brenda,

Thanks again: another great link and thought.

Are you on friendfeed yet?

David

Thank you for welcoming me David. I think that some kind of paradigm shift in semantic identification can lead to a dramatic improvement of collective intelligence in cyberspace, and ultimately to a leap in human development.

Hi David,

Jack Park pointed me to this website. I am going to see how/whether I can contribute to your discussions. Your website Debategraph.org looks interesting, too. I am always happy to learn new things and contribute my knowledge.

:-) Lars

Hi, David,

The survival of humankind depends on a radical change in the way business is conducted in the world. As a business communication consultant, I help clients shift their thinking... to stop beating their customers to death with messages that encourage mindless consumption, and instead enter into what I like to call Beneficial Value Exchange.

That Beneficial Value Exchange is the basic operational principle of the universe. In every sustainable interaction there is an exchange of value. So the wicked question is this: What can we do to create a shift in the way businesses operate to guarantee sustainability for employees, customers, vendors, investors, communities, and the environment?

I came here because I sometimes feel like a lone voice in the wilderness. Business is not about profit. Business is the mechanism through which we benefit the world around us. The responsibility of business owners is to conduct business as though it were the most personal of all possible transactions.

As a communication consultant, I seek to help business owners find ways to create these Great Exchanges and ensure that the promises they make are clear, that they can in fact deliver on those promises to those they serve, and that they can do so in as an effective and beneficial-to-others way as is humanly possible.

I've been a Dialogue Mapping practitioner for about five years -- Jeff Conklin pointed me here. I look forward to meeting with like minds!

Michael

Hello David.
I just sent you a message but I'm not sure it was delivered..I can't see it in the "sent" or "saved" messages...
Did you receive it?
If not...amongst other things I thanked you for this great innitiative :-)

Hi David, Thank sfor the welcome. I've just had a look at your debategraph tool. Most interesting. I would like to talk or meet up in due course, once I know a littl emore about GS. Best wishes, Bernard

David, thank you for your thoughts and support for my documentary, Hooked on Growth. I would be thrilled to get your input on the script once I have it fleshed out. Hopefully this will be soon. We've shot over 80% of the material we need, so it's time for me to begin organizing it.

Thanks David ... I like the way this interactive website displays "Activity". It makes it easy to follow what has transpired since the last login. :)

Thanks, David.

I hope you don't mind but I suggested to Google Knol that they should consider incorporating Debategraph features into their Knol debates section.

I've been commenting there on the US$700 billion bailout:

* http://knol.google.com/k/john-irons/rebuttal-the-emergency-economic/z39ex4tdrfqd/3?locale=en&pli=1#


Also, it may be an idea to sign up for the alpha from Sourcebinder:

* http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBkQR7MCAU

* http://www.sourcebinder.org/blog/


They're talking Papervision3D-Flash to new heights and the video demonstrates how mind maps may possibly be generated in the near future.

http://www.globalsensemaking.net/forum/topics/giorgio-ambassador-to-the

giorgio told me about your gsm discussion. how do i join?

Hi David, have been way too busy in the past half year, but am finally getting ready to get involved in this important and exciting project. More soon.

Hi David, nice to be in such good company and...nice to know someone is reading my blog! I have been following your work for some time now. Hope I can help somehow. For the time being I will try to get the "feel" of the group!

Are you using debate as synonymous with dialogue and discourse? This is an old violin I pull out from time to time because I care if we are making beautiful music or more global cacophony. It's one way to open up a dialogue :) Lynne

Thanks David. I came across this website after a couple of email exchanges with Scott at the Do Good Gauge. Great to find you here. I'll spend some more time on the site and try to contribute where I can.

Hi back

I want to make sure what you mean by "graph"? We wordsmiths so love to play with words. And I imagine dialogue and debate as quite different, actually, and discourse as sort of vague... hmmmm... I'll have to explore that and see what emerges over time and with discourse :)

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