Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Web Conversation

[Simon Buckingham Shum <S.Buckingham.Shum@open.ac.uk>]

At 11:30 09/07/2002 -0400, Alex Shapiro wrote:
> "Both weblogs and web
> communities could be dramatically improved if the relationships between
> different messages in a conversation could be expressed in a standardized
> way. If a standard for conversation messages and relationships existed,
> content could be more easily aggregated into other representations, while
> preserving the conversations' original context. This would make many new
> things possible, and many hard things
> easier."


stumbled recently across a thoughtful paper by John Sillince
[http://staff.abs.aston.ac.uk/jsillince/jsillince.htm]
on the prospects and problems of augmenting CMC with explicit
argumentation support:

Sillince J.A.A., and Saeedi M.H.,
1999, ‘Computer-mediated communication: problems and potentials of
argumentation support systems’, Decision Support Systems , 26,
287-306. 
http://staff.abs.aston.ac.uk/jsillince/ARTICLE8.htm

Simon