When Peter and I first set out to create Debategraph, one of our fondest hopes was that the tool might help to enrich the collaborative and visual learning experience for students in schools and universities. So it has been a joy for us this semester to be experimenting with Debategraph in classroom with Dr Sharon [...]
Visualizing Middle East Peace
The events in Israel and Gaza this year have prompted gloomy prognoses for the prospects for peace; a mood deepened by the mixed signals from the Israeli election and the latest developments with Iran. Lord Patten, writing for European Voice last month, struck a particularly bleak note: "However tough things looked in the past, I [...]
Introducing ESSENCE 2009…
ESSENCE is the world’s first global climate collective intelligence event—designed to bring together scientists, industrialists, campaigners and policy makers, and the emerging set of web-based sensemaking tools, to pool and deepen our understanding of the issues and options facing the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. The event, starts online in January [...]
The Internet is a Brain
Sunny summer’s morning in Somerset, enjoying the juxtaposition of: Popular Science’s revelation of the first wiring diagrams of the cerebral cortex: Matthew Hurst’s brilliant blogosphere activation simulation / visualization from PdF2008: . And Jeff Stibel’s Harvard Business blog: The Internet is a Brain