Comments for Sociocorpus http://sociocorpus.net notes on the evolving life of the socius online Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:36:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 Comment on Participative eDemocracy is coming to Canterbury by Andy Roberts http://sociocorpus.net/2006/10/10/participative-edemocracy-is-coming-to-canterbury/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Andy Roberts Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:36:27 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2006/10/10/participative-edemocracy-is-coming-to-canterbury/#comment-481 I wish you the best of luck with the Canterbury issues forum and offer some advice from myself based on experience with the Newham issues forum and many years with other online communities. If you don't want to spend at least two years bumping along the bottom while building critical mass then I strongly suggest that you do NOT accept the advice from Minneapolis which will be to set the default reply to individual senders rather than to the group. This unnecessary obstacle has made persistent conversations few and far between in Newham, UK and you have a chance to get off to a better start than that by setting the norm as group conversations rather than announcements that rapidly fizzle out. I wish you the best of luck with the Canterbury issues forum and offer some advice from myself based on experience with the Newham issues forum and many years with other online communities.
If you don’t want to spend at least two years bumping along the bottom while building critical mass then I strongly suggest that you do NOT accept the advice from Minneapolis which will be to set the default reply to individual senders rather than to the group. This unnecessary obstacle has made persistent conversations few and far between in Newham, UK and you have a chance to get off to a better start than that by setting the norm as group conversations rather than announcements that rapidly fizzle out.

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]]> Comment on Participative eDemocracy is coming to Canterbury by Dan Randow http://sociocorpus.net/2006/10/10/participative-edemocracy-is-coming-to-canterbury/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Dan Randow Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:19:18 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2006/10/10/participative-edemocracy-is-coming-to-canterbury/#comment-339 We had ten people at the public meeting. Here's a <a href="http://onlinegroups.net/r/post/141965" rel="nofollow">report on how the meeting went, and our plans</a> from here. We had ten people at the public meeting. Here’s a report on how the meeting went, and our plans from here.

]]> Comment on Sociocorpus Reborn by Dan Blogs » Blog Archive » I blog here now. http://sociocorpus.net/2006/02/23/sociocorpus-reborn/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Dan Blogs » Blog Archive » I blog here now. Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:06:19 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2006/02/23/sociocorpus-reborn/#comment-82 [...] I moved my work blog Sociocorpus, too (details). [...] [...] I moved my work blog Sociocorpus, too (details). [...]

]]> Comment on Practical Imaginings Symposium – Learning in the Digital Age by Welby http://sociocorpus.net/2006/02/23/practical-imaginings-symposium-learning-in-the-digital-age/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Welby Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:33:51 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2006/02/23/practical-imaginings-symposium-learning-in-the-digital-age/#comment-81 Dear Dan, ...and I remember the physical joy of swimming through light filtering water in a space that is truly four dimensional, eating good food with intelligent thinkers and watching them add to each other's ideas, ...and being confronted by the fact that some of the most humane people have met in many months also believe in the power to use a digital environment for good. Tom Standage talks about a strange thing called chronocentricity. With chronocentricity comes a fear of transforming change. I suspect that for some people this is panic at the loss of 'meaning'.. and for others it is caution surfacing as a moderating influnece over euphoric beliefs in the power of new technology. Whatever the reason, caution can also be used for good, when it moves beyond fear and becomes insightful critique. Pabic says something about religion that I believe applies here [and it builds on your observation about Psyberspace not being inherently bad]. He says "An idea is not resonsible for the people who believe in it." ...ditto the net Dear Dan,
…and I remember the physical joy of swimming through light filtering water in a space that is truly four dimensional, eating good food with intelligent thinkers and watching them add to each other’s ideas, …and being confronted by the fact that some of the most humane people have met in many months also believe in the power to use a digital environment for good. Tom Standage talks about a strange thing called chronocentricity. With chronocentricity comes a fear of transforming change. I suspect that for some people this is panic at the loss of ‘meaning’.. and for others it is caution surfacing as a moderating influnece over euphoric beliefs in the power of new technology.
Whatever the reason, caution can also be used for good, when it moves beyond fear and becomes insightful critique.
Pabic says something about religion that I believe applies here [and it builds on your observation about Psyberspace not being inherently bad]. He says “An idea is not resonsible for the people who believe in it.”
…ditto the net

]]> Comment on Practical Imaginings Symposium – Learning in the Digital Age by ruth http://sociocorpus.net/2006/02/23/practical-imaginings-symposium-learning-in-the-digital-age/comment-page-1/#comment-80 ruth Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:43:11 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2006/02/23/practical-imaginings-symposium-learning-in-the-digital-age/#comment-80 Dear Dan, I would like to meet in the first week of March to begin some serious planning for how we can make mediascape interactive. I have lots of ideas. I am sure you will too. Public space to discuss issues is the plan.... ruth Dear Dan,
I would like to meet in the first week of March to begin some serious planning for how we can make mediascape interactive. I have lots of ideas. I am sure you will too. Public space to discuss issues is the plan….

ruth

]]> Comment on Collaborative Q & A by Dan http://sociocorpus.net/2005/12/12/collaborative-q-a/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Dan Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:54:47 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2005/12/12/collaborative-q-a/#comment-79 It is so attractive to imagine that we could scale Q&A using reputation to control quality... somehow automating trust. The fact that the attempts revert quickly to conversations does point to the value of mixing the two. And we know that conversations don't really work without shared context and some level of connectedness between the participants.... hence my delight at you stopping by, Denham ;-). Dan It is so attractive to imagine that we could scale Q&A using reputation to control quality… somehow automating trust.

The fact that the attempts revert quickly to conversations does point to the value of mixing the two. And we know that conversations don’t really work without shared context and some level of connectedness between the participants…. hence my delight at you stopping by, Denham ;-) .

Dan

]]> Comment on Collaborative Q & A by Denham http://sociocorpus.net/2005/12/12/collaborative-q-a/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Denham Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:51:06 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2005/12/12/collaborative-q-a/#comment-78 Dan, Quality questions drive conversations, learning and solution finding. The real issue with Q&A systems is they run out of steam after a while. Trivial questions, too few valuable responses, too many people gaming the system. I think you need a conversation system that has a healthy mix of questions. Brint in the early days was like this - question driven, but there were deep and valuable responses that helped everyone learn. Dan,

Quality questions drive conversations, learning and solution finding. The real issue with Q&A systems is they run out of steam after a while. Trivial questions, too few valuable responses, too many people gaming the system.

I think you need a conversation system that has a healthy mix of questions. Brint in the early days was like this – question driven, but there were deep and valuable responses that helped everyone learn.

]]> Comment on ASCII Free/Busy Searches by Walter http://sociocorpus.net/2005/12/02/ascii-freebusy-searches/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Walter Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:29:05 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2005/12/02/ascii-freebusy-searches/#comment-77 Beautiful! All we really need is someone to put up all the days matching the dates for each year so we can cut & paste into email. Walter Beautiful!

All we really need is someone to put up all the days matching the dates for each year so we can cut & paste into email.

Walter

]]> Comment on Jane Kirk Spears 1960-2005: Goodbye, My Love by kerry robinson http://sociocorpus.net/2005/08/01/jane-kirk-spears-1960-2005-goodbye-my-love/comment-page-1/#comment-76 kerry robinson Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:54:59 +0000 http://sociocorpus.net/2005/08/01/jane-kirk-spears-1960-2005-goodbye-my-love/#comment-76 I didn't know you, yet I have an image of your beauty given to me by Dan. I know you to be special. Love to all. I didn’t know you, yet I have an image of your beauty given to me by Dan. I know you to be special. Love to all.

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