Andrius, I have found that the complexity digest web site/emailings are
a particularly effective way to communicate lots of diverse news in a
compact, readable format. http://www.comdig.org/ Note the density of
the top level display, easily scannable, from which the viewer can drill
down to deeper levels as desired. Also, note the user-feedback loop.
One weakness to their format, however, is the lack of feedback as to the
depth of the discussion on a topic. (01)
Regarding the format of the material below, I have a hard time reading
it, or understanding why these things are collected together in a
sequence. I know you have categories into which you sort these things,
but the world-according-to-Andrius is not the world-according-to-Tom. I
want to associate and link things in different ways, with different
people according to the topic at hand and the flow of the discussion, as
well as forming a sense of community around a topic, so that I know who
else is there... (02)
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From: ms@ms.lt [mailto:ms@ms.lt]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:27 AM
To: yak@collab.blueoxen.net
Subject: [yak@collab] Common Channel #1: Structuring systems for
fostering endeavors (03)
This letter delivered on behalf of Andrius Kulikauskas by
http://www.CommonChannels.com (04)
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Hi everybody! This is kind of fun. The current thread on IRC + Wiki is
a nice example of a spike or flurry to share with others, I think. Eric
and Chris were writing weekly summaries of discussion. These Common
Channels might be a way to encourage us to do likewise, but with impact
on the outside world. Dorai, I look forward to your help on collecting
items for our Channel #8, I would like to send that out to MindManager,
PersonalBrain and other such groups. In general, I would like to make a
map of groups and people actively connecting them. You know, this is
fun, because it feels like being outside of a group, looking inside from
bleachers. Peace, Andrius
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http://collab.blueoxen.net/forums/yak/2003-11/msg00074.html (06)
We learn! Andrius ms[AT]ms.lt
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John Sechrest has come to think that "everything is a document", so
that email may be thought of as a web page, hence a wiki, and
likewise IRC. He is considering the implications of an IRC that was
archived and then annealed, like a Wiki. Lively discussion at Blue
Oxen with Eric Armstrong, Bill Seitz and Tom Munnecke. (07)
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinkingrelevantly/message/954 (08)
We undertake! Andrius ms[AT]ms.lt
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With the Common Channels I'm thinking of making a map of
various
groups and what endeavors they're interested in and people who are
social hackers who are willing to use their addresses to let the
intermail go through. [...] I'm thinking it needs to be done via
individuals. You can't
ask groups for permissions, the group mind
is a fiction.And the moderators generally don't feel they can make
decisions for the group, funny enough. So I'm trying to figure out
the right ethic by which an individual could say, hey,for now, I'm
going to do this, I'm going to let in this trickle of letter from
outside and I'll let others join with me in controlling this with
the moderator able to take over at any time. (09)
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http://planetwork.blueoxen.net/forums/asn-discuss/2003-11/msg00019.html (010)
We learn! Andrius ms[AT]ms.lt
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Bruce Schuman, www.sharedpurpose.net, questions "The Concept of
'Purpose' in Group Dynamics". He reflects on the Chaordic Design
Process and concludes that groups addressing multi-dimensional
issues attract people for reasons which need not be the same. He
reports on an online framework that he uses as an organizer which
makes explicit the many different motivations that participants want
to address, each in their own words. This brings out local
motivational clusters, and encourages evolution. (011)
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http://www.ramanarao.com/informationflow/archive/2003-09.html (012)
We alert! Andrius ms[AT]ms.lt
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Ramana Rao, with the help of his readers, has collected more
examples of 4th Vertex projects: spaceshipEARTH mission, Humanity's
Option for Success, Charity Focus, Half-Bakery. (013)
My current priority is to develop a marketing service that I could
find clients for. [...] I just purchased the domain
www.CommonChannels.com My wish is that online groups might receive
and contribute to channels that they care about. I think this
interactivity is already profound, and can be much more so. It
depends on social groundbreakers, hackers, to personally reach out
to groups and connect them. It makes it possible for us to
intertwine a low-key deep-regard marketing from sponsors, I imagine
in the form of "open questions" that they would like us to keep on
our minds, and associate them with. (014)
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http://www.halfbakery.com (015)
We alert! Andrius ms[AT]ms.lt
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Thank you to Ramana Rao for alerting us to the Half Bakery. It is a
collaborative database for fictitious inventions, for the sake of
speculation, creativity and satire. They invite original ideas,
either possible or interestingly impossible. There is a cabal of
editors and moderators, and they don't want to be the ones to decide
what is doable, and what is silly. Registered users can vote for or
against ideas. (016)
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http://jena.hpl.hp.com:3030/blojsom-hp/blog/technologies/blogging/commun
ities/?permalink=D83C768A9FC850FC44A36CF6B89098B6.textile&smm=y (017)
We interact! Andrius ms[AT]ms.lt
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Steve Cayzer of the Semantic Blogger sends encouragements to the
initial members of the Bloggers Parliament
http://www.nataliedarbeloff.com/bloggersparliament.html organized by
Natalie d'Arbeloff. Thank you! (018)
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http://ming.tv/flemming2.php?did=10&vid=10&xmode=show_article&amode=stan
dard&aoffset=0&artid=000010-000716&time=1050062693 (019)
We alert! Andrius ms[AT]ms.lt
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Flemming Funch: One of Edward de Bono's numerous contributions to
the discipline of creative thinking is the six thinking hats. The
idea is basically that you are aware of what thinking and
communication mode you are in - what hat you are wearing. That puts
things in perspective, sorts statements in a meaningful way, and
makes it less likely that people misunderstand each other. E.g. if
you're wearing the black hat, you might be playing devil's advocate,
and put attention on things that might not work. If that is clear,
and announced up front, it is likely that people will take less
offense to the criticism, and it is more likely to be useful. If you
announce you're wearing a red hat, irrational emotional outbursts
are more acceptable, and don't necessarily have to be analyzed
logically. Etc. You can have a meeting using that system. Or you can
use it in brainstorming, to categorize different kinds of ideas. (020)
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http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?WikiSyncPoint (021)
We undertake! Andrius ms[AT]ms.lt
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I'm interested in trying to sync Wikis. Leave me a note here if
you're interested. (I invite you to sync this page!) (022)
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http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/_d10/_v10/__show_day/_w2003-03-30#000010-00
0689 (023)
We learn! Andrius ms[AT]ms.lt
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Flemming Funch: It is obvious that there are different styles of
weblogging. For some people it is simply recording what they do and
think each day, and what they have for breakfast. For some, their
postings are driven by what is in the news. For some, like for me I
think, there is a certain meta thread that goes through what they
want to talk about, even if the pieces might be sort of haphazard,
and might or might not have anything to do with the 'news'. [...]
Doc Searls says his weblog is simply that he answers his e-mail in
public. (024)
We are all invited to add such content that
shows the progress we're making to get things done!
http://www.commonchannels.com/cgi-bin/add.py (025)
We also invite Investigators to offer for our minds
an open question that they are pursuing. (026)
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An open question for our minds
from Andrius Kulikauskas of Minciu Sodas:
How might we as individuals best encourage our groups to work together?
http://ms.memes.net/index.php3?request=displaypage&NodeID=457
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