dourpil
28th October 2011, 11:27
Hello dear Avalonians :)
I hope I didn't murder the English language in this post. If it's the case, I would be pleased that you correct me!
Since a few months now and with the daily proof that our society is far from being nicely organized, I am trying to figure out what would be a good way to involve eveyone in a society with a simple accessible structure.
Obviously the way our organisation works is very complicated. In order to do anything (job, buy/rent an object, ...), you have to go trhough a long process full of papers that you don't even understand.
My ideal society is close to the structure presented in the 3rd Zeitgeist movie (Moving Forward). but it did not really present how the lambda citizen would organise his life and see how the society itself is organized.
So I thought about sort of a central 'website' (or maybe a program or whatever) from which you could see everything you want easily. From the daily news to the number of workers that is missing in your field; from individual artist's creations to proposing a new industrial process.
The conventional websites/programs that take care of logistics often operate this way: You have a title, subtitles, ... All listed in a linear way, which is not ergonomic.
The website I discovered just yesterday was exactly how I imagined the new program-for-society would work. Please go and check how it basically works. It's "only" used to share websites but it has -in my opinion- a great potential.
www.pearltrees.com
Here's how I see it: You'd have the first main pearls which would be for example "Jobs", "Organisation", "News", "Urgent", "People", .. (they are really just examples, I don't know what patterns would be the most efficient). This system would lead you in an easy way through everything you'd want to see.
Inside these, to facilitate the dialog and instead of a "forum" system that is also very linear and pretty inefficient (how many threads fall into the depths when they're super interesting?), the equivalent of the "posts" would be some pearls. These forum-pearls could be attached to any organisational pearl in order to open a dialog about it. Instead of people responding "yeah, good idea!" or "mehhh. Not at all", you'd have (a little bit like the "thumbs up/down" on youtuve) options like "I think it's a great idea and this pearl should be showed to a lot of people" or even "I think it's a bad idea but this pearl should be showed to a lot of people", etc... And if a comment wants to be done about that subject, a subpearl would be created and people could also easily react on the relation between these pearls; for example "this has nothing to do with the initial subject and should be moved" or "this adds good things to the initial subject and both pearls should be merged".
At least that's how I see things. :)
I only have seen a few project Avalon/Camelot pearls in the website, most of them are in french (the website was created by french people) so if some people are interested, and/or an admin, we could maybe start an "official" project avalon pearl?
If you know about similar websites that operate the same way and can be used for other purposes, please share! Please also share your reactions and suggestions.
Thanks for reading!
I hope I didn't murder the English language in this post. If it's the case, I would be pleased that you correct me!
Since a few months now and with the daily proof that our society is far from being nicely organized, I am trying to figure out what would be a good way to involve eveyone in a society with a simple accessible structure.
Obviously the way our organisation works is very complicated. In order to do anything (job, buy/rent an object, ...), you have to go trhough a long process full of papers that you don't even understand.
My ideal society is close to the structure presented in the 3rd Zeitgeist movie (Moving Forward). but it did not really present how the lambda citizen would organise his life and see how the society itself is organized.
So I thought about sort of a central 'website' (or maybe a program or whatever) from which you could see everything you want easily. From the daily news to the number of workers that is missing in your field; from individual artist's creations to proposing a new industrial process.
The conventional websites/programs that take care of logistics often operate this way: You have a title, subtitles, ... All listed in a linear way, which is not ergonomic.
The website I discovered just yesterday was exactly how I imagined the new program-for-society would work. Please go and check how it basically works. It's "only" used to share websites but it has -in my opinion- a great potential.
www.pearltrees.com
Here's how I see it: You'd have the first main pearls which would be for example "Jobs", "Organisation", "News", "Urgent", "People", .. (they are really just examples, I don't know what patterns would be the most efficient). This system would lead you in an easy way through everything you'd want to see.
Inside these, to facilitate the dialog and instead of a "forum" system that is also very linear and pretty inefficient (how many threads fall into the depths when they're super interesting?), the equivalent of the "posts" would be some pearls. These forum-pearls could be attached to any organisational pearl in order to open a dialog about it. Instead of people responding "yeah, good idea!" or "mehhh. Not at all", you'd have (a little bit like the "thumbs up/down" on youtuve) options like "I think it's a great idea and this pearl should be showed to a lot of people" or even "I think it's a bad idea but this pearl should be showed to a lot of people", etc... And if a comment wants to be done about that subject, a subpearl would be created and people could also easily react on the relation between these pearls; for example "this has nothing to do with the initial subject and should be moved" or "this adds good things to the initial subject and both pearls should be merged".
At least that's how I see things. :)
I only have seen a few project Avalon/Camelot pearls in the website, most of them are in french (the website was created by french people) so if some people are interested, and/or an admin, we could maybe start an "official" project avalon pearl?
If you know about similar websites that operate the same way and can be used for other purposes, please share! Please also share your reactions and suggestions.
Thanks for reading!