February 2012
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“How do people make decisions in a participatory democracy? There may be formal...”
– Freedom is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements, By Francesca Polletta
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“The trouble with majority voting, say its critics, is that every decision made...”
– Freedom is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements, By Francesca Polletta
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“Elites are not conspiracies. Very seldom does a small group of people get...”
– The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman
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Today's Teaching Rant
take one of each…
Some definitions:
phenomenon: A fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, esp. one whose cause is in question.
physical phenomenon: A “natural” phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy.
<teaching rant>
Today we are beginning our exploration of electro-magnetism. In this overarching theme there are...
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“In recent years, analysts have been much more willing to credit participatory...”
– Freedom is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements, By Francesca Polletta
January 2012
1 post
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“…the simple but difficult arts of paying attention, copying accurately,...”
– Jacques Barzun, from The house of intellect
December 2011
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WatchHere is a first shot at a Intro/How-To Video for Wirite. We are currently changing the functionality of the site, so the functionality expressed in this video will certainly be different in the upcoming months. The old site is still up at the Wirite beta page to test out. Check it out and send any feedback you might have. There is also a written How-To here. Thanks so much to Mark Pare and...
August 2011
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Settlers vs. Citizens
Recently, everything reminds me of Wirite: community organizations struggling to gather support for their causes; people in Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Yemen being left with the enormous task of replacing old ways with new better ways of living; anything on the news about a liberally minded person getting riled up by a conservatively minded person, or vice versa; news stories that show someone...
July 2011
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Wiriting the Pillars
What is the best tool available, within current limitations of technology and communication, to allow a large number of people with disparate ideas and backgrounds to coherently interact with one another on a large scale when the need arises?
The purpose of Wirite is to search for an answer to that question. Its goal is to allow the editing by and contributions of people to a single document at a...
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So say hi to Wirite
Hi Wirite! Here is a FAQ/Introduction/HowTo that may be useful before I get a more official page together.
Wirite is a new type of editor that helps any number of people, anywhere in the world, speaking any languages, write anything together. Let’s see how it tries to do this.
Document Search
The first page is a list of documents that can be edited with the website. There is a search...
March 2011
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Halfway Down
This is my first blog entry ever, so here is the ubiquitous one liner that tries to sum up my feelings or intentions:
I didn’t grow up on the Internet, but I’ll grow up here.
This first blog entry I am exploring why I spent more than a year developing the ideas of the Document Project (dp) before discussing the concept with the web community, before talking to possible end users, or talking to...