Hunting The Muse

Emergent Democracy And Action

Joi Ito has been doing a lot of thinking about Emergent Democracy, and he's talking about translating ideas into action recently. This is really a key subject and coincides with an idea I've been toying with for a while that combines blogging with comments, action items, summaries, and revision diffs.

Here's one of my early drafts. (Intended to be a public concept, so this is prior art so no one can patent it. Silly that should even occur to me, but for the recent Amazon weirdness.)

It implies having moderators (or perhaps community moderation) summarize collections of comments into ideas that are then submitted as action items. Document revisions resolve the action items, at which point comments can reset. Some variations can have the living document edited by the project manager only, others can have the whole community edit the document. It doesn't have to be a document, either. I just imagine it in context of a position paper where a point of view is further and further refined.

Posted by Curt at March 9, 2003 01:46 AM