Hi Jeremy I hope to make it to this week's hangout
I was very interested to listen to Steve Schneider talk about hypertext and Carlos mention discourse analysis - it a shame the two didn't meet. And the brainstorming conversation, great stuff! The hangout gave rise to day's brainstorming. Hangout 92 was a truly inspirational hangout. To cut a long story short, while on the edges of academia I thought I saw an opening for TiddlyWiki. Back then I had very little joy, Steve's TiddlyWiki initiative looks very exciting. Below comes with a TL/DR notice.. !! Hypertext and discourse analysis I am not a specialist in either hypertext of discourse analysis, but can see great potential in hypertext and discourse analysis. A while back Niklas Wagner was using a particular methodology with TW: "Grounded Theory". Reading the thread [1] a few years later is quite interesting. Its also great to see well populated TW Classic [2] - I miss the animations -- especially the way the tiddlers close and the zoom from the MainMenu (I do so much prefer the main menu on the right - we read right to left) I was on the edges of academic research at the time, the standard tool used in the institution (a business school) at the time was NVivo [3] - I briefly looked at it and found it to be the kind of software which makes me love TiddlyWiki all the more. !! Creativity, Brainstorming, SUNY I was working as a consultant / research assistant - I wanted to use TW in research. I produced a prototype tool for conducting Thematic Analysis (TA) 4] another way of coding text. The tool combined TA with creativity techniques, I was working with Tudor Rickards, a "creativity in business" professor. We called it TAMPER. At the time it don't occur to me, but looking at one of my professor friend's books, I see "Scamper" [5], a creativity technique from Alex Osbourne [5.1], one of the people with a claim to inventing brainstorming and an influence on creativity in education. At the time we were interested in making digital creativity tools for what could be classed as "creative problem solving" [6]. The spiritual home of brainstorming and creativity techniques (for us in Manchester at least) was the Creative Studies Program at Buffalo State [7], Rickards had studied there in the late 1960s. (In 1960 Alex Osborn won the SUNY Chancellor's Medal [7]. SUNY Connections? I assume that the creativity studies program is in SUNY, the same SUNY Steve works for) We had several visitors from the centre: creativity in Manchester Business School is a part of psychology department, Gerald Puccio had studied in Manchester [7.1] At the time we were exploring Second Life. To the creativity people, it seemed to offer an interesting environment for creativity, but one of the master students was a big fan of VUE [8] - an open source tool. !! Dance and hypertext A few year later I was working with video and thinking about coding movements. It's interesting that Jeremy mentioned the notation dancers use. As I student I was on a course with dancers, it was fascinating to see them in the corridors reading the notation and see them transform them into movements. Unlikely as it may seem, I hypertext and dance are not unknown to each other. The Compendium Institute also had a tool, it was used to help shape internet choreography [9]. This was an Open University organisation, into hypermedia discourse, dialogue mapping, it lives on on the form of Knowledge Media Institute (KMI). Simon Buckingham-Shum [10] interests could be said to include discourse analysis and hyper text, but his title is professor of "learning informatics" In industry Laben's dance notation [11] was used to help workers in factories move more efficiently. I also worked on a project with a HR guy who was into Action Profiling, a type of personality profiling based on analysis of movement [12] !! Informatics, Management information systems A professor of informatics at Manchester Business School introduced me to Compendium. At the time, in "Academic Windows Land", Java based Compendium enabled you to bring Word, Excel and Powerpoint into knowledge maps, it was really quite a good tool. One of its uses was to help with Wicked Problems [10] and decision making sciences. There seemed to be a lot of very clunky big software programs being investigated by the informatics and management information systems people. Then along came Web 2.0 and Open Source. I think this caused a shock to many academic institutions..... !! Art thinking A big trend in industry is now "design thinking", I am using "art thinking" as a perspective on all this creativity, hypertext, discourse stuff. I use paper along side TiddlyWiki, the next step is to bring them both together in a physical space as a kind of art installation. Yesterday my intention was to convert my paper maps into TiddlyWiki and to do a "show and tell" at todays hangout: of course I was over estimating the time I have to dedicate to this.... but I hope to share something / add to the discussion later on today best wishes Alex [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/BcH7tz2BFj8%5B1-25%5D [2] http://nikiwiki.wagnern.de/ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVivo [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_analysis [5] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7bh56o9m8vwC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=matrix+crawling+creativity&source=bl&ots=jKo5PPbV_A&sig=IB04mIYobhjGSPqq6LrjJj-EKh0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcru7q2MvJAhVD2BoKHW_VAa8Q6AEINjAC#v=onepage&q=scamper&f=false [5.1] http://creativity.buffalostate.edu/alex-osborn-pioneer-creativity-education [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_problem-solving [7] http://creativity.buffalostate.edu/history [7.1] http://creativity.buffalostate.edu/faculty/gerard-j-puccio [8] http://vue.tufts.edu/ [9] http://compendiuminstitute.net/news/rostra/news.php@r=55&t=2&id=31.htm [10] http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/member/simon-buckingham-shum [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labanotation [12] http://www.limsonline.org/applied-laban-communication [13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem On 4 December 2015 at 17:32, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote: > TiddlyWiki Hangout #93 will be on Tuesday 8th December at 4pm GMT/UTC. > > Find out more and post questions: > > https://plus.google.com/events/ctvcat9o8l7l0rd72vpuvibbd20 > > As usual, I’ve created a TiddlySpot for the agenda: > > http://hangout-93.tiddlyspot.com/ > > I hope you can join me, and do please let me know if there are any topics > that you’d like to see covered, > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8FDF71C5-C291-4A51-AD3A-5C813D878F40%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8FDF71C5-C291-4A51-AD3A-5C813D878F40%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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