Murli: "Is there any tool that allows discussion threads to flow like rivers, connecting at times, and then flowing off in different directions"
Not exactly related to discussion threads but your question reminded me of the interaction on http://www.liveplasma.com/ Enter in an artist and then you can follow the connection around. Each time you click on a new datapoint, the context changes. Using that as a visual model for your design issue. The datapoints are posts, I can then copy-past a section of a post and create a response. This forms a link. Links could also be represented by common tags. The solution would require a new and complex type of recommendation engine as a large 'thread' would become static noise very quickly as I think you allude too: "busy threads and such busy people, nobody really has the time or desire to go back up a thread" Nor would they see new posts in a multithreading conversation... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=23078 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
