see CategoryDiagram and see CategoryDiscussion. Also VisualLanguage.
Turns out I also missed LiquidDemocracy on Twisted Wiki
Museworld’s ProtectingDemocraticIntent is part of an interesting online process.
MeatBall Wiki has a nice long gotta see page on DebateTool … lots of external links.
Useful for sorting discourse, yes?
from C2 Wiki’s “Six Thinking Hats”
Looking at what we’re using here in LJ and the system behind it … pretty awesome.
Then, synchronously, I encounter (again) Jesse Ruderman and his Javascript shell.
Amazing …
So many options! I remember consulting on hardware purchases back in the early 90s … the sort of task that has informed my thinking on “Participatory Deliberation”: in an imperfect world every option closes some doors.
RubyOnRails? Dang … I had kinda ruled that out … but kiko.com has me thinking again. (Kiko’s homepage makes a nice pitch for Web2.0 … and the description of Javascript ActiveRecord states the case for JS very neatly.) And the ActiveRecord project is, well, a pretty good pitch for Ruby itself!