Meta XRepublic

 
Design & Discussion on Computer Mediated Deliberation - Collaboration
Roberts Rules for the Future


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SmartMobs

Primary Documents
Conceptual Documents
Originating Ideas (Oct. 1998)
Current Implementation Ideas
Links

David Brake
Yale Information Society Project
VoxPolitics

Other Tool Ideas

Orgnet Inflow
TouchGraph / Vanilla
Dialog Maps
Visual Vocab
Visual Thinking
Mapping Conversations
Visual Text
Visual Story
Topic Maps

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Last update: 4/12/2003; 6:59:48 PM.


Monday, January 20, 2003

Doing a mental walkthrough of XR, it occured to me that it should build on the success of blogging. Duh. But one thing that I've always wanted conferenincing systems to do that they never did was to generate a blog for me. That is, take every post that I've ever written on the Well and present it in chronological order. If you do this properly with RSS, bloggers can upload their archives into XR and then let the system crunch out a taxonomical categorization. Mapping all that into threads could be an onerous task, but it's an idea worth considering.


9:40:36 PM    comment []

I've been doing a (very) little bit of thinking - basically in the 4 hours since I've been away from my terminal, about P2P and XR. The first thing that comes to mind about using P2P has to do with trust and confidentiality.

The idea of the Sleeve is that it is your complete profile, voting record, partisan membership, affinity and identity. This seems to be the thing that you'd want to keep private or semi-private. Control over your sleeve, should thus be local. This requires a fat client.

If we keep sleeve control an end user responsibility then the burden to form coalitions of interest becomes a distributed matter. Thus only the the meat of wonking, dialog, polling and voting is borne by central servers.

The conflict arises in that for the sake of transparency some portion of the sleeve must be visible. My first stab is that if you wonk, something of you should be known. Thuse there is the tension between the desire of a critic of a policy to know the interests and motivations of the wonker, and the desire of the wonker to work anonymously in support of a controversial cause.


9:27:37 PM    comment []

 

cobb, the blog