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Ever wanted to doodle in a blog post? Here's your chance!


What time is it? You might be curious as to how little time this took, later. => 


Recently used "wibe" style questionnaires for a project recently which worked pretty well. People seemed to have fun filling out plain text boxes with a 0-9 followed by a comment. It can be lightning fast but it also allows for open ended answers. People also got started quickly, if you'd believe that. The data was i interesting and somewhat useful.


 We did had a laugh when two submitters answered 4 and 7 to the following question:


Do you live in a rural place?  
How rural? Eg. "1, i live in Manhattan, it's big" or "9 I live in the middle of a forest, located in the middle of nowhere."


A five you might surmise means your average suburb. 
And yes, they live next door to each other.


Now you might argue this is a perfect illustration that 
a) questionnaires are stupid and useless because 
b) rating scales are stupid and useless.


If i wanted to have the answer to that question I'd consider checking their physical location, check the population density, or just do both with some mashup of the IP and some database. Right?  


However, did we learn anything here, and if so what?  Did they answer anything useful?  Could this be improved?


Regardless of the size of the city they live in one believes it's somewhat of a city and the other thinks it's a textbook little berg. Who's right? Both I'd say. But what i found the most interesting is the mindset.


I'm sure bias can be somewhat reduced by better questions and examples. Or use sanctioned formats and scales. And if one thought survey answers are quantitative things one might be moved to do that. But that's another story. The difference between the answer and the expected answer is interesting.  


Love your thoughts. (these boxes are pretty anonymous)

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Rules for egalitarian objects

You are known by where you're FROM You aren't required TO point You point TO anywhere you see fit You may make children FROM places trusting you. There is only one. Kind.

The issue of writing a wibing scenario

How to write a scenario where people are wibing?

Just have people butt in on things the narrator finds curious.

Still liking this Swype with stylus thing. 8@Wiber right on. Did you fully master the text editing bit yet?
4@Bolt you progressives are so predictable.
/3@Torrent bolt you really should get out more. No wonder you're plotting to rip humanity a new one.
//2@Bolt speak for yourself bleeder. Hope there's a lot of you or this will be no fun at all.
//4@Still other than your obvious weirdness and wish for lambasting i don't appreciate you using my name in such a Dickish sentence.
9@Serene lulz at the evil love birds. Which one of you had the good graces to be born as an anal probe? And 8#Wiber, how did you manage to get then so. .  Peeved?

Were all cyborgs now, no?

Obviously. If you go with the original definition of what that means.

That we extend ourselves in order to cope with environments we weren't evolved for.

Here's the kicker.

I've come to realize that this is one of the most human things to do. Resist the generalities that pop up and consider this instead.

Culture. A non physical pitri dish of..well human things. Information. Conclusions. Conventions.

In cognitive science, as in anthropology, one might consider how we store information outside our heads. Books, rituals, buttons and physical things trigger us, they literally take part in the the computation one might think happens in the mind.

The same is true for culture. We couldn't imagine growing up in a world not shaped by those who came before. I hope this makes sense. Down to the first things we do after we're born it's all scaffolded by culture. Humans, even more so than say chimps, can't achieve humanity without the scaffold of a culture. Wipe the minds of a few hundred people and drop them on the savannah and see what happens. Not pretty.

It's not that your cellphone makes you a Cyborg, it's that being human makes you a Cyborg.

Discomfort, anyone?

I'm sure I've seen similar ideas to this, perhaps I'll remember where and edit.

Interlacing forms

Play along? Had the idea for some time to interlace forms into posts, and use your submits to continually enrich them. 7 + + True 9 + + + + Totally True 8 + + + So True 6  + Kinda 5 ~ Meh 4 - Neh 3 - - Not 2 - - - So Not 1 - - - - Totally Not 0 @$&%! Can you see any way this might work? 7 + + True 9 + + + + Totally True 8 + + + So True 6  + Kinda 5 ~ Meh 4 - Neh 3 - - Not 2 - - - So Not 1 - - - - Totally Not 0 @$&%!

If I'm right one could make it into a funly engaging . It might actually make forms/blogs into something .What am I missing? 
One thing this might do is let you quickly and privately offer feedback on specific ideas in the post, like this one. 7 + + True 9 + + + + Totally True 8 + + + So True 6  + Kinda 5 ~ Meh 4 - Neh 3 - - Not 2 - - - So Not 1 - - - - Totally Not 0 @$&%!This has advantages to the usual deal of answering everything at once 7 + + True 9 + + + + Totally True 8 + + + So True 6  + Kinda 5 ~ Meh 4 - Neh 3 - - Not 2 - - - So Not 1 - - - - Totally Not 0 @$&%!Thoughts?
 GRTA

Semantic commenting, academic?

See if you recognize this from anywhere.
John makes a point J and firmly strands behind it.  Jessica strongly disagrees and articulates reason JJ. Steve sees the logic in JJ and supports Jessica in opposition of J. Johns point J is facing stiff opposition.  Mary takes part in the discussion and  strongly supports Johns point J. Mary argues for J with reason JM and against JJ with answer JJM. Apparently Marys points hit the mark because when Stefan and Rebecka join the discussion they both take Marys view and strongly support J, JM and oppose JJ. Stefan articulates his reasoning in JS which seals the argument by offering a solution to the issue Jessica raised.

Know of anything that works like this? Where? 

It's not a graph, it's a network. It's similar to reviews since an argument is a rating and also a comment in some cases.

Imagine each step in the process sending you an alert,  like a chat with a link. Would this be useful in proofing ideas and reaching decisions? 

I'm thinking this exchange is qualitatively different from what we have today, and could have a positive impact in many ways.