For years we have been debating using xam.de's "Issue Based Argumentation in a Wiki" IBAW. This technique allowed us to gather arguments for crucial decisions in the NEPOMUK project.

Now behold debategraph.org .
Our goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all ... A wiki debate visualization tool.

Users can add pro/con arguments and deepen them with sub-arguments:


compare it with an IBAW example:
issue: our coffee machine is broken
* idea: fix it
 * pro: cheap
 * con: takes too much time, we can't live so long without coffee
* idea: buy a new one
 * pro: fast
 * con: expensive
  * issue: we need approval form our director
   * idea: we collect money ourselves

I love the internet - it brought us this.

A crucial marketing meeting of the galactic empire about viral marketing:


Very well synchronized, excellent drama, and a good story. If you wonder why we love this som much: the original GERMAN version of this video has the same excellent story and drama of executive board meetings. And it has (as of today) 2,083,871 views. Compared to the 98 million inhabitants of Austria+Germany+Switzerland, a market reach of 2 percent - which is enormous for viral marketing :-)

Wie auch hier verkündet:

Längere, dem Flashmob verwandt: Permanent Breakfast.

Wie vor zwei Jahren gibt es auch dieses Jahr wieder ein Permanentes Breakfast: das immerwährende Frühstück. Immerwährend sind inzwischen zwölfJahre, im Mai 1996 initiierte der Wiener Künstler Friedemann Derschmidt und seine Gruppe das "Permanent Breakfast".

Die Regeln sind einfach: einer lädt zum Frühstück ein, alle eingeladenen Freunde bekommen ein ordentliches Frühstück im öffentlichen Raum. Am folgenden Tag frühstücken die eingeladenen und laden wiederum Freunde ein, die Kette setzt sich fort.

Frühstück ist am

• 23.8.2008,
• von 10:15 bis 12:00 (pünktlich)
• bei der Pirmasenser Strasse 18 (Fußgängerzone).

Zum gleichen Zeitpunkt steht an eben der adresse ein Oldtimer, und etwas Kunst vom angrenzenden Unicat laden, d.h. es wird bunt und nett.



Bitte bringt mit:

• Tisch und Stühle (zur Not auch Decken, GymFitbälle oder ähnliches)
• Wir können Tische organisieren, meldet euch bei Leo vorher
• und Verpflegung.

Das entstehende Frühstück soll formal als solches erkennbar sein, dementsprechend sind tageszeitungslesende Kaffegenießer in Lehnstühlen zurücklehnend am Butterzopf knabbernd ausdrücklich erwünscht.
Bei Regenwetter? Als Kontaktmann für die Frage was bei Regen passiert dient Leo. Ruft mich einfach an: +49 176 24548974. leo(at)gnowsis.com

A colleague of mine wanted to do a simple number comparison in Sesame2, and couldn't make it out of the box. Because you may also want to query for "?blogposts nao:numericRating ?rating. FILTER (?rating > 8)":

• This won't work: FILTER (?rating > 8)
• This will: FILTER (?depth <= '5'^^<https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer&gt)
• If you didn't guess it already: its single hyphens, double hyphens won't work!

A whole query is:

SELECT ?blogpost ?rating WHERE {
?blogpost nao:numericRating ?rating.
FILTER (?rating >= '8'^^<https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer&gt) .
}

Thanks and kudos to Manuel Möller
What is NAO? An ontology used on the Semantic Desktop to rate things. So, if you give stars to something in KDE 4.0, its a NAO triple...

Its sunday and I wanted to really do shabatth/sabbath/a day of rest. So I looked it up, its 2Mose20, 8-11.

The rule is: rest. don't work. look back on what you did and enjoy. It doesn't say explicitly to give something to god on sunday, more to do it like god.

Interesting bit: the laws go on about the seven-day rule. Sticking to sabbath is a sign of the holiness and separation of Israel. On the seventh day, also animals and workers should rest. Also, every seven years, the fields should rest and be open for poor people to eat whatever grows there, and to the animals of the wild. This is especially interesting: the fields should recover from agriculture every seven years, and wild animals have a right to roam them every seven years. I interpret this in the meaning that different fields take sabbath in rounds, there is always a few fields on sabbath.

This also shows how god thinks about agriculture and sustainability, its built-in since Moses. More on this in the next days, I found another good rule: three festivities are required each year :-)

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