http://ifocos.org/2007/01/15/the-perfect-channel-for-public-dialogue/ INSTITUTE FOR THE CONNECTED SOCIETY Sat, 19 May 2012 07:42:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://ifocos.org/2007/01/15/the-perfect-channel-for-public-dialogue/comment-page-1/#comment-930 Periodismo de paz » Archives » Este pichón de reportero se va a volar Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:47:33 +0000 http://ifocos.org/2007/01/15/the-perfect-channel-for-public-dialogue/#comment-930 [...] El texto postulado al Congreso, tesis inicial de lo que se desarrolló en la criollósfera el año pasado, está aquí en versión bilingüe: The perfect channel for public dialogue – El canal perfecto para el diálogo público. Así que esto conforma una experiencia colectiva que puede ser retribuida en la medida que se capitalice ese conocimiento y pueda ser utilizado para movilizar algún otro guateque en la red. [...] [...] El texto postulado al Congreso, tesis inicial de lo que se desarrolló en la criollósfera el año pasado, está aquí en versión bilingüe: The perfect channel for public dialogue – El canal perfecto para el diálogo público. Así que esto conforma una experiencia colectiva que puede ser retribuida en la medida que se capitalice ese conocimiento y pueda ser utilizado para movilizar algún otro guateque en la red. [...]

]]> http://ifocos.org/2007/01/15/the-perfect-channel-for-public-dialogue/comment-page-1/#comment-644 Alvaro Ramirez Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:45:49 +0000 http://ifocos.org/2007/01/15/the-perfect-channel-for-public-dialogue/#comment-644 Creating new communities is not an easy task. But as you mention it is a worthwhile endeavor. I hope many good things happen in the Conference for you and the other participants. Creating new communities is not an easy task. But as you mention it is a worthwhile endeavor. I hope many good things happen in the Conference for you and the other participants.

]]> http://ifocos.org/2007/01/15/the-perfect-channel-for-public-dialogue/comment-page-1/#comment-577 Martin G. Smith Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:00:06 +0000 http://ifocos.org/2007/01/15/the-perfect-channel-for-public-dialogue/#comment-577 I come to this from a route slightly skewed [Bias Declared] from what might be considered normal. Me interest lies in the development of community using the advantages available on the Highway of Light. I have been highly successful in getting those who were once thought to be lost or even ‘not worth bothering about’ jazzed about the possibilities of both being able to learn and moreover create with the massive potential there is, just for the asking. This past week was spent following the machinations at a ‘Sandpit’ sponsored by EPSRC in the UK [http://ideasfactory.wordpress.com]. What was most heartening for me was watch my crew devour the words from each day and hook up and learn more about what was being talked about and the people involved. At the end of the week, they came away with greater knowledge and more than a few ideas of their own to explore. My role as always remains to provide the means for exploration and creation, then let them loose to get on with it. Ifocus too provides yet another means, a route for expression. There will be no stopping the creative potential of those who join in and this bodes well for the future. Gone are the days when Media, of all types, was the privileged domain of the few – Gone is the day when scientific and creative discovery, again, of all types, was restricted to university labs or industrial infrastructures. The revolution is at hand and it is WE. I look each day at a frame grab form an advertisement for Slooh [The interactive telescope service. – ‘There’s something going on up there. Some thing we don’t understand. Something bigger that we are. Some kind of huge cosmic question that renders us insignificant. And just when it seems like the answer is near, like we’ve mastered the universe, the question changes. Or evolves into an entirely new question. And as our renowned astronomers, physicists and all-round geniuses scramble to solve these mysteries, they begin to feel a distant fear. A fear in the back of their minds that one night, when they are not looking, some woman siting at home armed only with curiosity, a small library of alien movies and an associates degree in accounting could hop onto he computer and make the next big discovery. All while eating eating leftover Kung Pao Chicken and waiting for her laundry to dry. That’s the beauty of space – timing is everything.’ – As I said, WE!! I come to this from a route slightly skewed [Bias Declared] from what might be considered normal. Me interest lies in the development of community using the advantages available on the Highway of Light.
I have been highly successful in getting those who were once thought to be lost or even ‘not worth bothering about’ jazzed about the possibilities of both being able to learn and moreover create with the massive potential there is, just for the asking.
This past week was spent following the machinations at a ‘Sandpit’ sponsored by EPSRC in the UK [http://ideasfactory.wordpress.com]. What was most heartening for me was watch my crew devour the words from each day and hook up and learn more about what was being talked about and the people involved. At the end of the week, they came away with greater knowledge and more than a few ideas of their own to explore.
My role as always remains to provide the means for exploration and creation, then let them loose to get on with it.
Ifocus too provides yet another means, a route for expression. There will be no stopping the creative potential of those who join in and this bodes well for the future. Gone are the days when Media, of all types, was the privileged domain of the few – Gone is the day when scientific and creative discovery, again, of all types, was restricted to university labs or industrial infrastructures. The revolution is at hand and it is WE.
I look each day at a frame grab form an advertisement for Slooh [The interactive telescope service. – ‘There’s something going on up there. Some thing we don’t understand. Something bigger that we are. Some kind of huge cosmic question that renders us insignificant. And just when it seems like the answer is near, like we’ve mastered the universe, the question changes. Or evolves into an entirely new question. And as our renowned astronomers, physicists and all-round geniuses scramble to solve these mysteries, they begin to feel a distant fear. A fear in the back of their minds that one night, when they are not looking, some woman siting at home armed only with curiosity, a small library of alien movies and an associates degree in accounting could hop onto he computer and make the next big discovery. All while eating eating leftover Kung Pao Chicken and waiting for her laundry to dry. That’s the beauty of space – timing is everything.’ – As I said, WE!!

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