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May 19, 2005
Online Deliberation Conference
This weekend (May 20 - 22) I will be attending this event:
The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice / DIAC 2005, will bring together software developers, social science researchers, and practioners of online deliberation for three days of presentations and workshops on the Stanford University campus in May of 2005.
The program looks really exciting. Abstracts and papers are available online for those who can't attend.
Some topics I am particularly interested in:
- third-party annotation of content to provide additional context right when we are reading political or scientific information.
- providing automated support for conversational protocols to make communication more effective (e.g. automating parliamentary procedure)
- increasing collective IQ
My friend Michael Ginn and I worked together on a set of ideas like this in the mid 90's in a company called Realize Communications, one of the early companies to commercialize collaborative filtering for discussion groups. The time is probably right for such ideas to play a larger role in society, driven by recent trends in grassroots media (e.g. blogging), rating systems like epinions, folksonomy tagging, and XML, and Semantic Web.
Posted by barney at May 19, 2005 12:08 AM
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