[Air-L] the next step

[Peter Gloviczki]

the list is also what connects us: email is the platform, the list is
the thing. i suspect that if the list were a wiki, we would use the
wiki tools. i personally like the list in email format, it's
ubiquitious and easily accessible anywhere around the world

peter




On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Jeremy hunsinger <jeremy at tmttlt.com> wrote:
> we have in the past had all of those tools.   want to why we don't use
> them much?... because you don't use them.  you use the list, and that
> is about all you use.
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Meelis Ojasild
> <meelis.ojasild at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps it's my subjective angle and isn't necessarily representative, but
>> for me it's rather weird that the interactions take place through an e-mail
>> list. It feels like the '90s.
>>
>> Why aren't we using better tools like wikis, blogs, collaborative blogs
>> etc? It would solve the tagging and recommendation problem as well.
>>
>> Meelis
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Murray Turoff <murray.turoff at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> not everyone in a professional community can read everything of possible
>>> interest, the most common problem we all face is information overload.  if
>>> you look at hte paper it is based upon a study of another professional
>>> community.
>>>
>>> what you would be doing is collaborative tagging to create your own
>>> evolving index for the group as a whole and then voting on the "importance"
>>> of any paper entered by someone, but voting and indexing it by those that
>>> have read it.  the paper suggest that the members would characterize their
>>> interests by using the same index to represent themselves and the voting
>>> would be summarized by the  keys put on the paper.
>>>
>>> the paper suggests using thurstones law of comparative judgement so one can
>>> see the strength of the group agreements by distance between the ranked
>>> papers.  however, a simple five star rating would work to start with.
>>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Alexander Furnas <zfurnas at gmail.com
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>> do it would be books, papers, reports, drafts, or anything on the general
>>> topic including maybe standard changes, etc.
>>>
>>> You are the group that should be using the technology you write about.
>>> "A seer upon perceiving a flood should be the first to climb a tree"- kalil
>>> gibron
>>>
>>> A recommender system for what? Academic articles? News of interest? Job
>>> > postings?
>>> > Because I think existing platforms could serve these purposes - we could
>>> > just create a Air Mendely group or something (does one already exist)?
>>> > Perhaps an Air subreddit?
>>> >
>>> > That said, I agree that some Air collaborative filtering might be a more
>>> > useful way to surface things of interest to the community than just email
>>> > blasts.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Jun 16, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Murray Turoff wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > this group could make a wonderful demonstration by adding
>>> > > a recommender system to your operation.   A great phd project
>>> > >
>>> > > Turoff, M., Hiltz, S.R.: The Future of Professional Communities of
>>> > Practice.
>>> > > In: Weinhardt, C., Luckner, S., Stößer, J. (eds.) WeB 2008. LNBIP, vol.
>>> > 22,
>>> > > pp. 144-158. Springer-Verlag,  Berlin Heidelberg (2009)
>>> > >
>>> > > You would be the perfect group to demonstrate the benefits of adding
>>> that
>>> > > capability.
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