Tools for Dialogue and Deliberation on Wicked Problems

December 2008 Blog Posts (3)

Species of sensemaking

Some may be interested in these posts on the specific kind of practitioner sensemaking we are researching.

Al

Added by Al Selvin on December 17, 2008 at 18:45 — No Comments

Drinking the Koolaid: "Light and Love Delusion" as the new jingoism

Micah Sifry quoted this in his post about the IntenseDebate deployment on Change.Gov:

""I just wanted to say thank you for giving us a place to make our thoughts and comment heard. It's about time the government provide a centralized place for citizens to express their opinions where they feel they will be heard." [Emphasis by him there.]

My response to him on… Continue

Added by Ben Tremblay on December 3, 2008 at 6:30 — 2 Comments

Embarassment of Riches (two senses of) [updated]

*Originally posted 29NOV08; 12:30PM PST*

When I started doing web-work I was already long familiar with how tech_doc types just don't rate. (Brutally frank, but simply so.)

Because of that I felt somewhat self-conscious publishing yet more ... a couple of thousand hits per month year after year isn't nothing, but it ain't no A-list!

That said, a dozen years later ... old habits die hard. Having just now re-visited an MIT wiki that carries on, brick by brick, I… Continue

Added by Ben Tremblay on December 3, 2008 at 0:30 — 3 Comments