With the list you are guaranteed that everyone gets everything thereby avoiding the "research polarisation hypothesis". There is also a reasonably clear and exhaustive archiving system which can be organised in different ways. Re. "information" overload I can usually tell by glancing at the header or first few words if the message is relevant to my interests so it's not too big a problem. cheers, Mathieu On 06/18/12, Peter Gloviczki <glovi002@umn.edu> wrote:
the list is also what connects us: email is the platform, the list is the thing. i suspect that if the list were a wiki, we would use the wiki tools. i personally like the list in email format, it's ubiquitious and easily accessible anywhere around the world
peter
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Jeremy hunsinger <jeremy@tmttlt.com> wrote:
we have in the past had all of those tools. want to why we don't use them much?... because you don't use them. you use the list, and that is about all you use.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Meelis Ojasild <meelis.ojasild@gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps it's my subjective angle and isn't necessarily representative, but for me it's rather weird that the interactions take place through an e-mail list. It feels like the '90s.
Why aren't we using better tools like wikis, blogs, collaborative blogs etc? It would solve the tagging and recommendation problem as well.
Meelis
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Murray Turoff <murray.turoff@gmail.com>wrote:
not everyone in a professional community can read everything of possible interest, the most common problem we all face is information overload. if you look at hte paper it is based upon a study of another professional community.
what you would be doing is collaborative tagging to create your own evolving index for the group as a whole and then voting on the "importance" of any paper entered by someone, but voting and indexing it by those that have read it. the paper suggest that the members would characterize their interests by using the same index to represent themselves and the voting would be summarized by the keys put on the paper.
the paper suggests using thurstones law of comparative judgement so one can see the strength of the group agreements by distance between the ranked papers. however, a simple five star rating would work to start with. On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Alexander Furnas <zfurnas@gmail.com
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do it would be books, papers, reports, drafts, or anything on the general topic including maybe standard changes, etc.
You are the group that should be using the technology you write about. "A seer upon perceiving a flood should be the first to climb a tree"- kalil gibron
A recommender system for what? Academic articles? News of interest? Job
postings? Because I think existing platforms could serve these purposes - we could just create a Air Mendely group or something (does one already exist)? Perhaps an Air subreddit?
That said, I agree that some Air collaborative filtering might be a more useful way to surface things of interest to the community than just email blasts.
On Jun 16, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Murray Turoff wrote:
this group could make a wonderful demonstration by adding a recommender system to your operation. A great phd project
Turoff, M., Hiltz, S.R.: The Future of Professional Communities of Practice. In: Weinhardt, C., Luckner, S., Stößer, J. (eds.) WeB 2008. LNBIP, vol. 22, pp. 144-158. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg (2009)
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