Tim Bonnemann

Recently, Tim Bonnemann...

• commented on Draft Whitepaper on Obama and Transparency 5 months ago.

  Are you sure the link is correct? It's referencing Delib's briefing paper from last month. Unless that is your whitepaper, of course. ;-)

• commented on Serendipity for Online Deliberation? 8 months ago.

  Once you measure view counts, you can expose not the absolute number of up or down votes but the relative degree to which participants may or may not agree with any particular statement or comment.

• commented on Directory of Online Budget Simulators / Games 8 months ago.

  Great list, as always. When you get a chance, could you expand on what you think makes each of these simulators/games stand out (e.g. innovative features or anything else worth noting)? Thanks!

• commented on Community Self-Moderation 9 months ago.

  As far as I can tell, most comments that were flagged (and moved aside) during the transparency discussion in phase 2 were all related to the issue of Obama's "missing" birth certificate. They were a considerable distraction, obviously, though the moderators could have done a better job explaining and documenting their interventions. Happy to talk about Zilino once it's finally presentable. Any day now...

• commented on Community Self-Moderation 9 months ago.

  Actually, as of Tuesday night (June 9), 142 comments on the OSTP blog (out of an estimated 536 total submitted during the ongoing phase 2 of the Open Government Dialogue) had been flagged and moved to the "flagged comments" section. That's about 26%. See my post for details: Open Government Dialogue: Phase 2 Metrics Update

• commented on Ask the President - Raising or Lowering the Debate? 11 months ago.

  WhiteHouse.gov just launched its first round of Open for Questions (this has been tried before on Change.gov). The setup is pretty much the same as the last instance on Change.gov (Google Moderator, one main topic plus a few sub-categories, user input is sorted by popularity only). New is the fact that they're keeping it very short (the forum will close before Obama answers a few questions on Thursday). Already, the numbers for participants, questions and votes are getting pretty big (again).

• tagged Ask the President - Raising or Lowering the Debate? with the tag askthepresident 11 months ago.

• commented on Ask the President - Raising or Lowering the Debate? 11 months ago.

  The predecessor project, Ask the President-Elect, never really took off. I've been tracking it on Flickr. The current project is off to a much more dynamic start. In terms of "bubbling up" the most popular or highest-quality questions, the Community Counts application does a number of things better than comparable tools (e.g. the three applications used on Change.gov to achieve a similar goal). For example, the diversity of views into the data it offers and the more careful default settings...

• commented on Read this, and weep... 11 months ago.

  Here's the follow-up post by Tom from February: http://www.mysociety.org/2009/02/19/why-i-want-a-million-quid/

• commented on Clay and the Wisdom of the Crowd about 1 year ago.

  I've picked up this discussion on my blog: Clay Shirky on Change.gov and crowd wisdom

• commented on Clay and the Wisdom of the Crowd about 1 year ago.

  It sometimes helps to remember that according to Surowiecki (author of the book "The Wisdom of Crowds", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wisdom_of_crowds) the following four conditions must be met in order for crowds to be considered smart or wise: 1. Diversity of opinion: Each person should have private information even if it's just an eccentric interpretation of the known facts. 2. Independence: People's opinions aren't determined by the opinions of those around them. 3. Decentra...

• tagged Giving Citizens an Effective Voice with the tag e-participation about 1 year ago.