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Hi, Michael)

"information paralysis" Is that a problem? So, may be it is not? May be it's an opportunity) Let's solve it)

Imagine very-very big mindMap (like that, but much bigger http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QCtHZYRX_0w/UcbhaceT4MI/AAAAAAAAAW...). Imagine, each word in there is a single knowledge. All this knowledges are ether unbounded from each other or bounded in small groups and all placed chaotically. This is how it looks right now in most of the human minds and most of the Internet. So, would it be great, if we will create website which could bring order to all this knowledges through crowd-sourcing? And each knowledge will have bunch of links to courses, books, videos etc. It will be core structure to any useful information. This is the idea. I'm thinking about this sometimes. Just an Idea. Yet.

I could share more information, if someone will be interested in this)

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I've been looking for something like this. If I understand correctly, you're suggesting something similar to the mapping of scientific paradigm(s): http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/scientific_method_re...

From a learner's perspective, the map would be more like a route-planner, highlighting the particular paths to take to get from one point of knowledge to another - but it would presumably need to be able to account for what a learner already knows (what if, for example, a route requires the learner to acquire advanced algebra, but they don't yet have basic algebra?).

Needs some work, but you're basically proposing an Edx/Udemy/(etc)/Wikipedia/PersonalBrain mashup? Sounds interesting...

Yeah, I thought about some "wiki" structure, initially. It could collect information, but what the quality will it be? This model doesn't help. And hierarchy of editors like in wiki will not help neither. Knowledges and bonds between them are very subjective. For example, three knowledges: HTML, PHP, JS. Are they bonded? Of course, they are! But how? Which one is the parental knowldge? Which one is child?

I think about another structure

I feel like you're describing a way to visualize wiki articles as a mind-map, where the mind-map's links are weighted by the links in the wiki's page.

Wikipedia categorizes articles in such a way where you actually can tell which one is parental and which one is child.

php and js would be bonded beneath a "scripting language" category, which would be beneath a more general "programming languages" category, which would be beneath an even more general "computer languages" category, comprising "markup languages", comprising html

all the way back to philosophy ;)

http://xkcd.com/903/

I tried to categorize knowledges, it doesn't work, at least in my case. One knowledge could be in the multiple categories. So, then this is rather "tags" than "categories".

About visualization. It's impossible :) It will blow your mind if you will see the entire mindmap or at least few percents)) It will looks like this: http://blyon.com/blyon-cdn/opte/maps/static/1069646562.LGL.2...

Better way is to allow users to ask "How can I reach this knowledge?" And the answer will be displayed as quite small mindmap, which is leading user from his current situation, current knowledges to the knowledge he requested.

I agreed about philosophy as a last destination) May be it's only way) So, do you want to be the creator of the new philosophy?)

I'm interested , send an email @ abdelhadikhiati[at]gmail dot com

Do share more info - my email's in my profile.

I am also interested, my twitter is @sergeyzavg

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