Category Archives: ArgumentBlogging

The Conversational Web

By Simon | Published: July 1, 2010
Some of my more recent research has been into new, or at least improved, ways to make the web a more conversational place. In one sense it already is, we can link to stuff and we can comment on posts. This isn’t always sufficient though. In reverse order, not all sites support commenting and even [...]
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Us versus Them

By Simon | Published: March 17, 2010
or authority versus involvement as Alan Rusbridger describes it in his recent Hugh Cudlipp lecture in which he asks Does Journalism Exist? The us versus them refers to the idea that in the past information was held or restricted to certain authorities who controlled how that information was presented, consumed, and reused. More recently, this [...]
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ArgumentBlogging

By Simon | Published: December 15, 2009
We have all read something online with which we have strongly agreed or disagreed. In many of these cases we might respond via comments, if the site supports commenting, or we might post something to our own website that links back to the original. Unfortunately this approach does not enable us to capture and reuse [...]
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Argument Reconstruction on the Web

By Simon | Published: December 4, 2009
Floris sent me a link to this advert for a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam’s Leibniz Center for Law. The advert relates to a new FP7 project called IMPACT (not to be confused with Chris’ IMM-PACT EPSRC funded project) which aims to do the following: IMPACT is an international project, partially funded by the [...]
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CMNA 9 Presentation on “Argument Blogging”

By Simon | Published: July 30, 2009
As promised here are the slides from my Argument Blogging presentation at CMNA 9 in Pasadena, California.
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