Scott McLeod of Dangerously Irrelevant offered up an interesting idea for visualizing technology usage as a simple venn diagram. The context was specifically aimed at opening dialogue amongst educators about technology training in schools, but the idea of expressing what amounts to simple survey questions as diagrammed answers is appealing from a usability perspective, too.
Co-constructing politics
My exposure to wikis in 2005 led to a 6-month experiment, PoliticWiki, that asked participants to build a political platform from scratch. Now, as that project lingers in a near dormant state, I’ve found myself concentrating on the dynamics of community and how emergence can be designed. My panel on Tuesday will touch on those ideas, but here I will just provide an update on the state of politics and wikis.