Help us map the mind of the blogosphere

Cross-posted from: Independent Minds

To celebrate the launch of The Independent Minds blogs, and as part of our Obama project with The Independent newspaper, we are launching a global experiment to map the mind of the blogosphere.


Source: Matthew Hurst’s Blogosphere Meta-Core.

Not all of it, obviously… not, for example, the part that’s thinking about Britney Spears and Angelina Jolie.

We’re just focusing on the part thinking about the inauguration of the new President and the choices he faces. And we want to transfer the collective insight of the blogsophere into the map that’s already building here.

Can we do it? With your help… yes we can.

We’re not expecting you to learn the pros and cons of argument visualization; though if you want to stretch your mind with something other than a Crossword or Linkudo we’d love to help.

Instead, all you have to do, if you are blogger, is to let us know when you have posted about Obama and any of the policy issues he faces. You can do this in two ways:

(1) Include a link to the map in your blog post:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/article1022466.ece

or,

(2) Embed the map like a YouTube video, using the code below:

<iframe src=’http://debategraph.org/flash/fv.aspx?r=7714&d=2&i=1′ frameborder=’0′ width=’490′ height=’650′ scrolling=’no’></iframe>

Then tag the post TheIndyDebate. When you do this, we’ll detect the post and start to include your thoughts in the map.

Embedding the map will let your readers watch the map evolve in situ on your blog. And, if you link to or embed the map, we’ll publish a reciprocal link (both here and on the Independent Minds blog) back to your blog.

Starting now with: Ideal Government, Contrary Brin, AlwaystheTwain.

If we miss a blog post, email me at david AT debategraph DOT org – and if you’re not a blogger, but know someone who might interested in participating, please pass the links along.

December 1, 2008 | Filed Under Argument map, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Consultation, Critical Thinking, Debate, Debate Map, Debategraph, Debatemapper, Deliberation, E-democracy, Global Warming, Governance, Government 2.0, Open Education, Public Policy, US Election, Visualisation, Web 2.0 

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3 Responses to “Help us map the mind of the blogosphere”

  1. osimod on December 3rd, 2008 8:32 am

    This is a great idea and a good way to reach out to non-mindmap adopters. I’ll play with it!

  2. a great idea from Debategraph: linking argumentation maps to blogs « Benchmarking e-government in web 2.0 on December 3rd, 2008 8:38 am

    […] a great idea from Debategraph: linking argumentation maps to blogs Help us map the mind of the blogosphere : Open to persuasion… […]

  3. David on December 11th, 2008 2:08 am

    Hi, David.

    Thanks for the positive feedback and for the blog post — and hope that your UN New York trip goes well.

    David

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