Junto

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1. Rules of Engagement

Reputation Component: Review [defining expert, building trust]

- Stack Overflow: free programming Q&A site (via Alec Perkins)

- Aardvark: "Tap the knowledge of people in your network"

Potential Issues

• Need a way to tune out unwanted stalkers, though. (CoCreatr)

----> Best way to tune out stalkers would make it invitation only and have it validate with twitter user IDs. Easy peasy  (Gabriel Shalom)

• I hope the solution won’t rely on video, though, because it makes scanning content and interlinking ideas so darn hard.  (Henry Copeland)

----> Tags applied to the individual juntos would let you ’scan’ the content. Links CAN in fact be applied to video (someone would need to edit in references in post-production for “complete” juntos). Video is the most attention-holding format, as people drift away from long-form reading. (Erica)

----> I hope it DOES rely on video, so that video will evolve and become the multidimensional proto-holographic medium it can be, with all the attendant metadata it is presently missing. YouTube’s beta automatic transcription service is a step in the right direction; Adobe’s (and many other independent university’s) research into seam-carving will also help.

See also: http://quantumcinema.blogspot.com/2009/09/rubric-for-open-source-cinema-beta.html (Gabriel Shalom)

Potential Uses

• I would think if this works it might provide another model for education in some of our High Schools in the States. (Michael Josefowicz)
• Also, villages in poor regions of the world are moving to attract work-study projects via the net — such as transcribing short audio/video clips, tagging Tweets, or creating Mindmaps and other visuals on topics that relate to their education. (Openworld)

   

Other Feedback

• Essentially a digital version of a marketplace. Or a party. .. And the public marketplace imposes discipline and enables participation. skype conference call in parallel with a google wave gets close (CoCreatr)
• I foresee some problems that might arise as the number of Juntos increases, but maybe it would be simple to fix that by retrieving search results by a number of “listeners” order. (Nuno Raphael Revao)
• I also am a bit sceptic about the two-people-dialogue model although I understand that it is so for a more easy to follow dialogue, I still think it is too limited this way even with the backchannel output. (Nuno Raphael Revao)

Other Suggested Features

• Here’s an example of a Mindmap created from Tweets generated in a recent TEDxAmsterdam event – http://www.mindmeister.com/35428817 Perhaps mindmaps also can be built from EBD Junto conversations? That way, anyone who misses the live conversations could later explore the issues. (Openworld)