posting IRC logs and testing emergent democracy

While I was asleep, a debate raged on the IRC channel about whether IRC logs should be automatically turned into blog entries. kensanata pointed out that VotingIsEvil so I proposed a sort of deliberative democracy approach. Lets all have a discussion on wiki page and post our positions on the issue. The point would be to change your mind freely and try to sway the opinions of others and recruit them. Like neuronal recruitment. I don't feel strongly about this issue and it appeared quite controversial. I thought it would be a good experiment in emergent democracy on wikis. That and the emergent democracy of picking a party date. ;-)

Boris writes about it here.

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A return to the IRC logs debate from Grant Henninger
August 7, 2003 4:18 AM

A long while back Joi asked if we should post the IRC logs to a wiki or blog. He then made a wiki where we could debate the issue. When I went out for drinks with Joi the other week... Read More

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