Gnodal Journal

PoV … right. Now, moving along:

I suspect that a rigorous dialectical analysis (dialogics?) would evidence that a number of perspectives are valid, credible, and plausible. To revert to the vernacular: there’s more than one way to skin a cat.

And so decisions are then derived, quite properly, according to the human values at play: here we would see the play of various principles.

The point to the exercise is always that a) most people cannot put forward arguments in support of their opinions and b) most of those few supporting arguements are simply wrong.

What comes to mind is that rationality needs to get its foot in the door of public argumentation and that it does so. But it does so again and again and again with only slight progress: each victory gains little and every defeat is costly. What the “Participatory Deliberation” system produces using the POV method is a set of substantial foundation blocks.

Is this of value? Is anything except material wealth?
Does this matter? Does anything except brute power?

“The great PC rip and replace – You could live without 64 bits and dual-core, but not hardware virtualization — it’ll cost you” and “Sending software to do hardware’s job – In-hardware support for server virtualization is lacking, but that wasn’t always the case” by InfoWorld’s Tom Yager

“Intel speeds up rollout of PC virtualization technology”

“Intel will advance virtualization development“

*This is a version of material I posted in my LJ: hfx_ben. I lost my 7Gig HD on Sunday … that’s the third time in less than two years (a 2 Gig drive last spring, and my laptop fall of 2003). Three hardware failures in well over a decade, since !thinks! 1987, my first XT. Poverty is a crushingly crude set of inter-locking processes and dynamics.*

Anyhow: email from Richard K Moore today (does that name ring bells?) … his letter resonated deeply with what I’ve been saying all this while about “participatory deliberation” – his letter

I’ll be darned! The methodology I implented as “write once” corresponds in every particular to what is now known as “literate programming” (see “Propaganda and Tools” and also “Literate Programming Library“), viz.:

“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer whatto do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

The practitioner of literate programming can be regarded as an essayist, whose main concern is with exposition and excellence of style. Such an author, with thesaurus in hand, chooses the names of variables carefully and explains what each variable means. He or she strives for a program that is comprehensible because its concepts have been introduced in an order that is best for human understanding, using a mixture of formal and informal methods that reinforce each other.”
       from literateprogramming.com

Check it out: <oXygen> XML editor … lovely (though the buttons in the registration window are self-evident only after first usage).

Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments – “SIMILE will leverage and extend DSpace, enhancing its support for arbitrary schemata and metadata, primarily though the application of RDF and semantic web techniques. The project also aims to implement a digital asset dissemination architecture based upon web standards. The dissemination architecture will provide a mechanism to add useful “views” to a particular digital artifact (i.e. asset, schema, or metadata instance), and bind those views to consuming services.”

Addend.: DSpace at sourceforge; DSpace wiki; “DSpace for E-Print Archives” from the HEP Libraries Webzine at CERN

“It’s not a binary choice between journalism and development, blogging and podcasting, or even marketing and communicating. The power of metadata is additive.” — “Never MetaData I didn’t Like” in Steve Gillmor’s blog
Yaa, like I was saying … so why can’t I get anyone to help me kick-start my project?

I wonder … will the re-election of the Bush gang startle they yuppy intelligensia into abandoning their self sabotage? will they dare become effective?

“Skimming got us the election from hell. Skimming reduces the power of your intellect from recognizing the cues of emerging disruptive technologies to missing the point.”
Yaa, Steve … so why not augment and support that perfectly valid “heuristic technique”? We’re cognitive misers by nature … adaptively. Is someone so naive as to suggest we go against human nature?

Gilmor echoes the intention driving my project: “to improve the signal to noise and create content unencumbered by dilution and hidden agendas. The agendas are still there, but they’re in broad daylight.” Thus, I have suggested, is the nature of authentic discourse.

“It’s not a binary choice between journalism and development, blogging and podcasting, or even marketing and communicating. The power of metadata is additive.”
Hear … hear!!

Links in Gilmor’s piece (what he calls “a metadata swarm”):

Gilmor’s Podcasting conversation at BloggerCon
Doug Kaye moving away from transcripts
Mary Hodder
Dave Winer on ”no skimming”
Technologists on moving to blogosphere: Jonathan Schwartz, Adam Bosworth, and Jon Udell … and others who have “bootstrapped the blogosphere with the podosphere: Adam Curry and Dave Winer.