Things are just getting going around here. Most of the action is currently happening on our Discussion page.
We are currently experimenting with a Discussion on WealthOfNetworks, where we collectively read and discuss the Yochai Benkler book.
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These are interesting ideas that we have collected, on OrganizedInquiry
See also: CHI, a Collaborative Human Interpreter
The vision (originally expressed by SamRose, somewhere around here…) is that when a member or group within an OrganizedInquiry has some questions, they come up with a list of e-mail lists, individuals, question forums, usenet newsgroups, wiki communities, and so on, where there may be people with interesting, unique, or highly informed answers to the questions. Widely spread out the questions, and then collect together answers & responses, and integrate.
Tying together many groups/communities/individuals.
The vision here is to broadcast the inquiries you are performing, and to find and visibly (publicly) connect with related inquiries being performed by other groups.
It is different than the ExtendedInquiry in that we’re focusing not so much on finding answers to the questions via groups of people; Rather, to focus on the visibility of your own inquiry, and to connect with groups of people focused on relevant, related inquiries.
The NetworkedInquiry would, ideally, be part of some sort of ProjectSpaceNetwork.
Also: An OrganizedInquiry wiki/blog site as a central aggregation place, similar to FreshMeat? for software developers.
This branch is where exploration, discussion, and knowledge creation is done in the open, and thus can be influenced by group pressures. But, group approval, and recognition for usefulness of contribution is a reward, generally.
we organize a grid blog about the inquiry, and invite people to blog about it over a certain period of days or weeks, and to tag their blog posting in whatever tagging space they prefer using a special unique tag for the inquiry. Then we track that rss feed for that tag from each tagging service.
See Also: SmartMobs: Whither Gridblogging
Speaking of tagging, we can also have people tagging items that are related to the inquiry in SocialBookmarking sites, and ask them to make a little note about the relavance.
See also: CommunityWiki:SocialBookmarking
Wiki communities can write a high quality page with a certain name, collecting insights from their own knowledge base. This page is their collective submission to the inquiry. This could include many different types of wiki community: Knowledge collectors like Wikipedia, debate communities, communities with expertise in different areas, etc.
Mailing list communities, forums, other emerging online and even offline communities.
Voice, video, and face-to-face conferences can also contribute, preferably with a recording or transcript, or at least a summary of discussion.
IRC, Chats, Tings – Why not?
On the OrganizedInquiry wiki itself, designated summarizing people, and anyone else interested, are then summarizing all of that into a page or pages about the inquiry.
This branch is intended to make group pressure less of a factor, and is intended to effectively aggregate the knowledge of a diverse group of individuals who are generally working seperately. There may be some connection, but individuals may remain anonymous here. Anonymity is not always possible in the CollectiveIntelligence branch.
So, curious to see what others think about all of this. The idea is to develop techniques to systematically incorporate all of this.
Wikis, Tings, talks, discussions etc, between the team of people who aggregate it all. They will likely develop processes. A wiki page can link to all of the sources, to tie them all together. People can continue to grow an inquiry over time, in an ongoing way, from all sources. Although it will likely get disjointed if it is not tended to. Eventually, it might become possible to make the growing more cybernetic. – SamRose (did TransClusion of this page to OrganizedInquiry discussion, just in case anyone comes across and is interested in this) – SamRose
Define external redirect: DelphiEngine FreshMeat