Anyone who follows the BBC News site, or who reads a newspaper, will be familiar with a good few interest groups and think tanks. Where their news releases aren’t the entire basis for the story, they are invited to comment at length, in the name of political “balance”, or on the basis of an often-undeserved [...]
Posts under ‘Poblish’
Poblish: a new vision for blogging, and content-based policy crowdsourcing
This is the third in a series of posts on the subject of ‘How the semantic web can crowdsource high-quality judgment and improve policymaking’. In part 2, last week, I described how existing content – the blogosphere, in particular – is currently used, or perhaps abused, by policymakers. This time, I’m going to cover a [...]
Poblish: crowdsourcing new policies, and why blogging has to change
This is the second in a series of posts on the subject of ‘How the semantic web can crowdsource high-quality judgment and improve policymaking’. Last week I made the case for using existing content – blog posts; Wikis, like Debatepedia; and visual debate-mapping tools, like Debategraph – as a knowledge base to drive new policy [...]
Two applications worth looking at
Two things. This is ‘why pie charts stink’ – a nice programme for visualising data: Dashboard 1 Powered by Tableau Secondly, further to Andrew’s Poblish posts, I’ve just revisited Debatepedia. I met one of the Debatepedia team last year at the WeMedia conference and I had to say at the time that it didn’t seem [...]
Poblish: when crowdsourcing new policies, don’t waste existing content
This is the first in a series of posts on the subject of ‘How the semantic web can crowdsource high-quality judgment and improve policymaking’ that Paul introduced yesterday. With all the talk about brand new crowdsourcing platforms, and letting the population ‘speak their minds‘, it’s easy to forget the mass of already-expressed opinion that exists [...]
Poblish: How the semantic web can crowdsource high-quality judgment and improve policymaking.
My friend Andrew Regan contacted me after reading a recent post here in which I said that I’d like to be able to link to a good essay entitled ‘How the semantic web can crowdsource high-quality judgment and improve policymaking.’ He’s kindly offered to write it – in an extended serialised form – as part [...]
