Vítor Figueiró

Porto, Portugal

I've been a software architect, analyst and developer for the last 16 years. I'm currently working as an independent business and Internet software consultant, with an emphasis on open source technologies. I believe e-democracy can have a very positive impact on every human society and I'm doing research so I can contribute to it's adoption.

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commented on Serendipity for Online Deliberation? over 2 years ago.

Answering the original question 'could this "induced redistributive serendipity" be used in large-scale online deliberation?', the answer is yes, technically it can. This is achieved by incrementing a counter on the argument table each time an unique user views the argument, so that when the (inversed) tag cloud is shown, the font can be resized accordingly without any extra processing/calculations. I favour this approach, because it promotes distribution while still allowing people to delib...