Category Archives: argument web

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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AIF 2.0 Meeting

By Simon | Published: May 14, 2010
Wow, where did the last month go? I am recently back from the second Argument Interchange Format (AIF) meeting which was held at the Dalmunzie Hotel in rural Scotland. The list of delegates to this meeting read like a who’s who of online argumentation researchers – people who are developing argumentative tools which, in some [...]
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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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The Argument Web

By Simon | Published: December 17, 2009
What? In a previous post I mentioned the WWAW (pronounced WOW), or World Wide Argument Web, an unwieldy name for what is mostly referred to as simply the Argument Web. My Argument Blogging project, that I have posted about here, is a part of this Argument Web which is essentially a network of loosely coupled online [...]
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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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