The Power of Metadata: “Whether or not peer-to-peer fares any better than the Web, it certainly presents a new challenge for people concerned with describing and classifying information resources. Peer-to-peer provides a rich environment and a promising early stage for putting in place all we’ve learned about metadata over the past decade.”
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Collaborative Networking, P2P and metadata
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Without metadata, content is just bits
Fortune.com: Stewart Alsop writes “In the Internet Age, there may be no data more valuable than data about data.” Good introduction to metadata.
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Enter here
Brent Schlender: “You don’t have to be a poet or a historian to recognize that we’re living through something that has happened only a few times in the past 10,000 years. Call it a metaphor shift. Once, metals defined profound transformations in human society–the Iron Age, the Bronze Age. More recently we’ve marked time by the emergence of new technologies–the Industrial Revolution, the Information Age. But this time the metaphor is neither a pure technology nor a physical object, though it embraces both. It is an idea. Welcome to the Age of the Network.”
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Next Gen eGov
BW Online Putting Government Online, Phase Two: “Make no mistake: The e-government sector is going to boom. It will just be in a different way than many thought.”
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Picture That: Australia in the forefront
First Monday has a good article by Debbie Campbell: “Australia has recently released a new Web service for the discovery of its cultural heritage in pictures. The service, called PictureAustralia, was built using a combination of standard metadata, Z39.50 and XML. However, the most significant building block has been collaboration.”
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Zen, ZENO
German Institute for Autonomous intelligent Systems is appearently doing something interesting with Team Mediation Systems. Their ZENO is a groupware system for discourses on the Internet.
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What is …
CPN: Deliberative Democracy rests on the core notion of citizens and their representatives deliberating about public problems and solutions under conditions that are conducive to reasoned reflection and refined public judgment; a mutual willingness to understand the values, perspectives, and interests of others; and the possibility of reframing their interests and perspectives in light of a joint search for common interests and mutually acceptable solutions.
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What’s a rotisserie?
Harvards project on Online Deliberation and Discourse seems very relevant. Some good thoughts about ideal features of discourse software.
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Consultation now!
The Public Administration Select Committee in the UK has today published their sixth report called INNOVATIONS IN CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT. Very interesting read! I had the pleasure of participating in their online consultation. The committee recommends that all public authorities should have access to a code of guidance which expresses the fundamental importance of involving the public in decision-making wherever and however it can be made feasible at reasonable cost and in a timely and responsible manner.
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The interplay of equally audible voices
Fred Evans’ Cyberspace and the Concept of Democracy: “We often speak of democracy as a mere decision-making procedure rather than as a “form of life.” Part of the reason for this formalism is the difficulty of revealing the aspects of individual and social existence that provide the impetus toward democracy and that democratic practices should reflect and augment. I argue that the Internet’s status as a “virtual” rather than actual reality (its status as a serendipitous form of what phenomenologists call an epochéor a “placing within brackets” of our standard beliefs) reveals some of the more important aspects underlying democracy. In particular, the Internet’s virtual status indicates that society is what I term a “metamorphosing multi-voiced body.” This implies that democracy off-line and online must support the interplay or solidarity among the “voices” of this body (as opposed to their mere plurality) and simultaneously respect their heterogeneity. It must adopt the “interplay of equally audible voices” as its political ideal. Because this interplay among voices produces new discourses, democracy’s valorization of the multi-voiced body must also affirm the metamorphosis that society’s creativity brings about. I also consider what this view of democracy means for current issues concerning the fate and character of the Internet as well for the clash between the liberal, communitarian, and deliberative views of online democracy.
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