Paul Resnick's Occasional MusingsPaul Resnick's Occasional Musings - LiveJournal.comCHI Workshop: Beyond Threaded Conversation- April 4, 2005 At the CHI conference, we held a workshop about new ways of organizing on-line conversation, beyond just grouping messages into "topics" and organizing them based on the "reply-to" structure.Derek Hansen, one of my Ph.D. students, did the primary lifting in organizing the workshop, and he did an excellent job of running the session. We had 25 really high-caliber participants and we seemed to have enough common background to not just talk past each other (though that happened occasionally).The...http://presnick.livejournal.com/13718.html Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship- April 1, 2005 I've been in England this week for the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Before the meeting in Oxford, David Halpern of the Prime Minister's hosted a meeting, and Will Davies invited a bunch of people involved in civic technology initiatives in the UK. Sorry for the length of this post, but here are some highlights of interesting people I met on this trip:I've been wanting to meet David Halpern for several years, because Bob Putnam has suggested it several times. Having met him, I...http://presnick.livejournal.com/13495.html |