the listening machine?
I dug this out of my archive. I liked the pictures I used. Isn’t BC beautiful? Anyways, this is from a Toastmasters speech I gave in July 2009, and it covered some of the basic problems I’ve been approaching. I want to thank Victoria Beaver Toastmasters for cheering me on. They seemed to think I was going to be rich someday. I don’t know if they were right. I think I’m already rich and I sure don’t have any money. 
I just want help building this thing, so I can play it and see if games really can change the world.
I think I’ve done two full iterations of the design and talked to at least seventy-five people directly about it since then and most people are really enthusiastic. I’ve only had one person say it was a terrible idea on a blog comment, I asked him to find others to berate me and stop me from going ahead, but he said it would only take one person to stop a bad idea. Anyone else think that is slightly illogical? I want war to end. Did it work?
I also want to thank Allen for coming up with this draft tweet for entry into a US contest I can’t enter. “Engage politically disenfranchised with online game which displays consolidated opinion and fuels sponsorship of political clarity #100KTwitch” It’s nice to know that someone out there is reading my blog and getting a clear picture of what it would look like to them. Any other enthusiastic readers interested in this game? I want to stress this is a text based game, not video, and not 2d graphical, but still a game with actions to take, an exciting ladder to climb with your friends, and nifty rewards to earn. I would love a set of comments saying “I am interested” or even better “I’ll do everything in my power to stop you, even if I have to do it alone!”.
Love your enemies! Thanks for reading.
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New to your blog, looked only at this one presentation, so I may be missing a lot of context.
What I see is you may be building a highly usable version of what aardvark is a simple version of. http://vark.com
Aaardvark: Simple question, spread to potential “knowers” based on profile and answer history keyword matching, user B connect, scan, answer (optional), say thanks ( optional).
Yours (as far as I get it): adds personal focus, priority and category, beyond clever keyword matching.
Welcome and thanks for the feedback!
Aardvark is cool, but it seems focused on serving answers. Maybe I should try a philosophical question on it sometime. Anyways, they are on my competitors list for sure.
My distinction is I want to serve our common questions first, our debates second, and the answers between the two third. This presentation is a bit out of date, but it still contains the basic ideas I’m trying to build on. Thanks for checking it out.