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In terms of research I heard somewhere the saying that researchers who are the most naive (are not very good in the "traditional" way of the discipline) in respect to their field tend to be more innovative. Another way to think about that comes fro…

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The wish-list linked in this post has some commentary from George in relation to user interface. One thought would be to take George's comments as a point of departure to explain your own thoughts. Another thought is to seek an active project you ca…

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In that post, you said: Shifts in thought, shifts in perception, shifts in paradigms, all shifts happen simultaneously and concomitantly, some we see and some we don’t, some of these shifts are gradual and some of these shifts are sudden. Our task h…

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IBIS meets MediaWiki

As part of a much larger open source collective intelligence platform, an IBIS extension has been created for MediaWiki. The development website for it is found here. What you can navigate at this time starts from an index of conversations. Each conversation has its own home page with an explanation (motivation) for the conversation followed by any responses, which, typically, are issues raised. That format is similar to… Continue

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Bloomer: Open Source for Collective Intelligence

The Millennium Project just announced the Global Climate Change Situation Room. The project entails numerous activities, one of which is a collective intelligence platform prototype. I am calling that project Bloomer.

The project includes a Federation Server--basi… Continue

Posted on December 12, 2009 at 10:13pm —

WikiScience is devoted to mass collaboration and the use of Science and ingenuity to address the problems of desertification and the effects of global climate change. It is meant to provide a canvas to enable both scientists and Citizen Scientists alike to work togethe

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At 5:55pm on August 11, 2009, Paul Kahn said…: Thank you for the welcome. I am doing research this month for a project that, if we are chosen, will involve the kind of "sensemaking" methodology you have captured so well on the site so far. I have a lot to learn. I was thrilled to discover your site today, and I look forward to exploring what you have put together. Thank you.

At 7:23pm on June 22, 2009, Surjeet Singh Nagpal said…: Hallo Mr Jack,
Yes I donot have my web page, this happened by mistake. Thanks.

At 5:05am on June 10, 2009, Lynne Johnson said…: I don't know Jack. I'm back home now and getting a better look at the home page eg your book. That paper I mentioned is pretty basic stuff, as I said, my humble effort to get the guy to pay attention to dialogue as his use of it could impact environmental discourse in this state/WI and the USA. But who knows, maybe it'll strike a chord and it's all I have on hand. As I said, I've worked where the rubber hits the road in recent years. Your book looks interesting, will read more tomorrow. Lynne

At 9:42pm on June 9, 2009, Lynne Johnson said…: Sure, Jack. I could do that.

FYI The prof didn't want me to pursue the paper topic (dialogue lit review), but it astounded me that as an adult/environmental educator he seemed so unaware of and uninterested in dialogue. So, I decided to do it anyway and to see who was doing and saying what about dialogue these days, and to write the paper in a way that might both get him interested and be fun for me. I was really quite ill at the time, but never-the-less had a great time doing this. As a writer, the prof who taught the class gave us the unusual grad level parameters of no more than 15pp, one page of references, and copy that could be/made publishable for general interest (this was a life sciences communications environmental education programs and campaigns 900/grad level class).

Am I in a non-geek minority in the network? :)

How do you plan to impact the Climate Change gathering?

What might be a useful role for one such as me in this network?

Just talked to a geeky couple I referred to the network once I found you earlier today and who are two of the "latetolunchpoets" of the no longer .com -- we'll be redoing everything, so I'll be websiteless for a while..

Thanks

Lynne

At 5:29pm on June 9, 2009, Lynne Johnson said…: Jack.

Pleased to be new/today to this network. You'll find that the web address I submitted doesn't currently work; I've just found out it's being worked on.

I've worked largely with marginalized peoples for years, and this has had the effect of marginalizing my mediated communication access and therefore literacy, so I'll thank you in advance for your patience.

Hard to communicate how happy I am to have happened upon this network as I reconnected with my old passion of dialogue this week. I'm reinventing myself vocationally right now, and it's led me right back to my old loves of our planet, peace, writing and deep dialogue.

You asked about links to my work. Most of my work has been situated in the community, not in cyberspace. I can send you a paper I wrote for two upper /graduate level environmental classes I took a few years back just for fun in the Gaylord Nelson Environmental Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, if there is a way to get a Word doc to you. I took all sorts of liberties from traditional academic strictures because I was unconcerned with grades or actually publishing at the time.

At 59 going on 60, I'm determined to live my passion for dialogue and to contribute to healing our planet for the rest of my life. Joining this network and collaborating on our common wicked problems is where my time and talent goes now.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Lynne

At 10:55am on June 3, 2009, robert beckett said…: Hi Jack,

Here is a link to a 2004/5 paper which employed a simple technique for 'heuristic' thinking.

Pls note the graphics are number based (base 5, but like base 2 or 10, all numbers are available) allowing people to make their own arguments, or to import their models and structured information from other debates, papers, models etc. while using a common format.

It has the aim of clarifying the 'tricky bits' of argument and allowing people to co-argue together using a method designed to be so simple a 5 yr old could use it (a stick and sand method so it does not depend on tech. but has to work with it)...we started off with simple graphics like the boxes in this example, but these formats can be related to any graphic template/shape for dynamic visualiation once the appropriate numerical grid is applied to the data content.

I'm excited by the debategraph technology because it's so well conceived and built that i think my unique user interface (not shown, but we are working to create a beta version) can provide another expression of the same principles, open-communication, transparent information, co-participation in content development and graphic/visualization of complex data relations, that this and the other visualization software linked to this site all seem to employ. It might even dovetail with debategraph in a front-end, back-end relation to add a new dimension to both systems...?

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:msS3l7BNnYUJ:www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/002/ijie_002_04_beckett.pdf+robert+beckett+karlsruhr&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

NB the editors duplicated one of the models at the end of the paper, so there is an error if you get that far!
regards robert

At 4:47am on June 1, 2009, robert beckett said…: Hi Jack, thanks for your interest. I am working on this. I'll let you know when it becomes available. My mind is racing with all these new links made recently through GS and its network, to see how i can display my work in a way that shows how it is different but related to the best out there.

At 10:44am on May 29, 2009, Lucas Dixon said…: Thanks! Very pleased to be here. The kenyersel discussion method is based on philosophical dialogue methods of Lipman, McCall, and others, with a good bit of our own experimentation. We ran a series of groups and tutorials with variations on the rules. We played less emphasis on the attitude of participants and more on the practical features. I should probably write something about the history of our method sometime... and perhaps something about our experience with specific dialogue devices, such as paraphrasing.

At the moment I'm mostly focusing on building something like discussion forums that helps filter repetition and inappropriate content, but which still keeps track of the history of discussion to preserve accountability. I've used compendium a good deal in the past, and have just started looking at debategraph.

I very much hope to have such methods used to measure the quality of the content of political discussions (and thereby politicians), also applies to news papers. I also hope to integrate these methods into political and legal processes. One powerful way forward is as an improved method of consultation.

At 4:40am on May 15, 2009, Michael Warner said…: Hi Jack,

You bet. I saw this group trying to tackle wicked problems. At some point it would be great to see what you could do with our software. Still somewhat beta and largely for enterprise clients but we'd love to help you all one day. I'll be sending an invite to you and a few others here soon as it becomes stable enough to share with a few more people. Best, Mike

At 10:56pm on April 12, 2009, Bamba Ndiaye said…: Hi Jack,
Thank you for the supportive comments. My website is temporarily down ( moving to another server).
I am glad to see that you are working on CALO. I am using Openiris too but not being able to have have it be fully functional (email and calendering functions).