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Featured Blog Posts – November 2008 Archive (4)

Early Compendium

Hi all,

Some might be interested in a series of posts tracing Compendium's early history. There are connections to some of the themes discussed in the Philosophical aspects of sensemaking and operational definitions thread, which I'm just now belatedly reading.

The series starts here.

Al

Added by Al Selvin on November 25, 2008 at 13:55 — No Comments

What should Obama do Next?

In the build up to Obama’s inauguration on 20th January 2009 and across the new administration's first 100 days, Debategraph has teamed up with The Independent newsapaper in the UK to give the world a chance to map and think through what Obama should do next.… Continue

Added by David Price on November 17, 2008 at 23:30 — 17 Comments

WikiScience

Pierre Lévy posted a bookmark at Twine to WikiScience. From that page, we find this description:

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…

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Added by Jack Park on November 13, 2008 at 15:50 — 4 Comments

ESSENCE: E-Science/Sensemaking/Climate Change

Hi everyone,

We've been busy building the website for ESSENCE: E-Science/Sensemaking/Climate Change:

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/essence

We're fast approaching the stage where we will approach external groups of stakeholders to invite them to try out our sensemaking tools. The website is not yet being publicly announced with any fanfare until we have populated it with more examples and partners.

So, we… Continue

Added by Simon Buckingham Shum on November 10, 2008 at 19:00 — 1 Comment