[Air-L] the next step

Mon Jun 18 05:18:58 PDT 2012

With the list you are guaranteed that everyone gets everything thereby avoiding the "research polarisation hypothesis". There is also a reasonably clear and exhaustive archiving system which can be organised in different ways. Re. "information" overload I can usually tell by glancing at the header or first few words if the message is relevant to my interests so it's not too big a problem.

cheers,

Mathieu

On 06/18/12, Peter Gloviczki  <glovi002 at umn.edu> wrote:
> 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.
> >>> > > --
> >>> > > *Distinguished Professor Emeritus
> >>> > > Information Systems, NJIT
> >>> > > homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff
> >>> > > *
> >>> > > _______________________________________________
> >>> > > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> >>> > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> >>> > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
> >>> > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> >>> > > http://www.aoir.org/
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> *Distinguished Professor Emeritus
> >>> Information Systems, NJIT
> >>> homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff
> >>> *
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
> >>> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
> >>>
> >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> >>> http://www.aoir.org/
> >>>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
> >>
> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> >> http://www.aoir.org/
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > jeremy hunsinger
> > Communication Studies
> > Wilfrid Laurier University
> >
> > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
> > Virginia Tech
> > www.tmttlt.com
> >
> > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail
> > /\ - against microsoft attachments
> > http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki
> > http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary
> > Studies:the book series
> >
> > I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn
> > how to do it.
> > -Pablo Picasso
> > _______________________________________________
> > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
> >
> > Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> > http://www.aoir.org/
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Ph.D.
> http://petergloviczki.com
> _______________________________________________
> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
> 
> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> http://www.aoir.org/
> 
> 
--
****
Dr Mathieu O'Neil
Adjunct Research Fellow
Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
College of Arts and Social Science
The Australian National University
email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au
web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php