http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ Big Think Forums: Last 35 Posts en Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:00:52 +0000 http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/82#post-411 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:05:20 +0000 2816 411@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>I've just clicked a "Recent" and wound up at "Education For A Global Economy" &lt;http://www.bigthink.com/features/710&gt;</p> <p>which is exactly the same film as "Re: How will you ensure that our students can compete in a global economy?" (12/14/2007)<br /> &lt;http://www.bigthink.com/policy-politics/1380&gt;</p> <p>except that the former is undated, has no transcript, and none of the original ratings or comments were transferred with the idea. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/78#post-410 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:50:07 +0000 2816 410@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Same here, I've just come across an Idea that wasn't even dated, nor had a transcript. Worse, I recognized it immediately as a feature idea that is many months old, but had been repackaged as new.</p> <p>Since this idea involves a prominent political figure, I have to wonder why the film was repackaged, non-dated and removed from its existing list of comments. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/81#post-409 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:55:05 +0000 18482 409@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Does Big Think have an open API? It's tough to create Big Think-based widgets, blogging plugins or custom players without one. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/59#post-408 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:48:23 +0000 18451 408@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>A subscription or favorites applet is essential to make the site user-friendly. What about adding a sharing icon as well? I would love to bring other people into the conversation by posting your videos on Facebook, blogs, etc. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/80#post-407 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:38:31 +0000 14584 407@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>When I try to update my profile setting, on clicking "save" I get the "404 User not found" error. I cannot understand what is wrong with my username. Actually, I have not found any field I can edit to even change it.</p> <p>Additionally, I keep receiving Big Think emails on the former email account, the one I had before I made an update, just a few months ago, when I had no problem on updating my profile.</p> <p>Any ideas?</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/49#post-406 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:12:58 +0000 2816 406@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Its hard to take this site seriously when even the concept of a paragraph seems absent. I think it safe to say, thinkers spend a lot of time organizing their thoughts for the purpose of communicating clearly. </p> <p>Failing to reproduce this organization inhibits communication. Making the posted thoughts look disorganized and harder to read makes your site less desirable.</p> <p>I find the lack of it VERY frustrating. Especially when the edit field --where I'm typing this-- clearly shows paragraphs. </p> <p>I reported this 6 months ago in "Site Bugs", but perhaps I didn't state it clearly.</p> <p>BTW, my last post should above have read "your headliners" instead of "you headliners", and &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; was me checking to see if manually typing HTML tags would help. It didn't. And yes, that post has multiple paragraphs just like this one. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/49#post-405 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:45:07 +0000 2816 405@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Good Communications require the ability to edit text well. </p> <p>Someone, even you headliners, will have a hard time communicating their ideas when basic organization of a document is difficult. I followed the link from one of your email thinking it interesting. I found a huge blob of text that lacked organization into paragraphs. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</p> <p>I didn't even want to try to read it. It looked like an email from one of my high-school-dropout family members. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/79#post-404 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:10:30 +0000 9993 404@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Uh yeah!!! How about having this site function like others. With all the convienences? Is that the right spelling? Do you know if I'm just playing with you or if I'm really mad? Duh? I'm just playing but it would be nice to have "all" the conveniences. If you want people to come here very often you have to make them want to. We're all busy people, ya know! How much fun is a website that's a pain in the arse to navigate and use. Come on Big Thinkers! What good is an impotent thought! Smile:) </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/69#post-403 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:57:33 +0000 9993 403@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Huh!!! That sounds like something I'd say. To whoever wrote this, I love you. Is "what do you see?" a concept or a person? Concepts are wonderfully fun to play with. The only problem is it's hard for everyone else to join the game if we don't know what you're talking about. Please, do clarify. Not that I'll ever be able to find this again so that I can play, too. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/49#post-402 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:48:08 +0000 9993 402@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>I love this site but for these types of issue it's one of the worst I've seen. You'd think big thinkers would have been more efficient. I want to play here but the site is hard to use with any level of fun. My favorite form of entertainment is thinking and interchanging ideas with others. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/59#post-401 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:40:26 +0000 9993 401@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Most definitely!!! We need this feature! </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/78#post-400 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:08:56 +0000 7548 400@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>I find it really hard to know what is recent and what isn't. I mean obviously I can look at dates, but in terms of ideas, I'd really like to be able to see them in a somewhat chronological order. Same with comments and responses. But mostly ideas. I keep seeing the Idea number go up, but I don't know what Idea that was. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/60#post-399 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:39:33 +0000 7548 399@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>yeah I definitely like the idea of a weekly poll, or even daily as the site grows. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/4/page/2#post-398 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:35:52 +0000 7548 398@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>"When responding to an idea, it's sometimes hard to know whether you're responding to the ORIGINAL idea, or a response to the original.<br /> It would be helpful if the idea I'm responding to (or its description) is shown to me on the page where I write my description of my idea."</p> <p>I find it very confusing, really. What is the difference between a comment and a response? </p> <p>user "tngldwbstr" also had it right with the spell check and the ability to edit already posted materials. </p> <p>Right now, I think you need to focus more on the organization of the site. I don't really feel like I can browse. I feel like it's more like a commercial where you see twenty different images in 3 seconds and they expect you to know EXACLTY what just happened. Just a better flow would be nice. I'm not sure how exactly or I would say so. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/74#post-397 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:26:16 +0000 7548 397@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>I must agree. I believe the education system is an iceberg. Only the tip is out right now, and I think by creating a category all in itself I believe we may start to see the whole thing. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/77#post-396 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:44:06 +0000 15575 396@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>hello,</p> <p>i'm very happy to get the big picture updates, but whenever i click on the link that says, "to read [x]'s full clip etc.," i get the main page for the person, and everything is dated from december of 2007. also, there don't seem to be any "full" clips, just answers to standard questions, like, "who are you?" and, "what do you believe?" in addition, the answers from richard cizik (for example) were recorded in june of 2007. this doesn't seem to be the most current info that the update email promises.</p> <p>what am i doing wrong?</p> <p>thanks,</p> <p>steve </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/55#post-395 Wed, 28 May 2008 20:38:18 +0000 14191 395@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Mike Davis! Author of "City of Quartz" </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/76#post-394 Sat, 24 May 2008 07:40:12 +0000 14191 394@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>I agree. Something like chatrooms would be wonderful. But I think they should be dedicated to a certain topic because there are enough other possibilities to chat with someone (icq, skype). </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/2/page/2#post-393 Sat, 24 May 2008 07:34:39 +0000 14191 393@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Why it isn't possible to find this video (The End of Aging") <a href="http://www.bigthink.com/features/349" rel="nofollow">http://www.bigthink.com/features/349</a> to find under Aubrey de Grey? </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/48#post-392 Sun, 18 May 2008 20:17:42 +0000 8626 392@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>I am having the same problem and can not access my profile from anywhere on the site. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/2/page/2#post-391 Mon, 12 May 2008 07:12:50 +0000 13024 391@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>I am unable to post ideas, and the secret word entry on the quick responses yields an incorrect reply upon every attempt. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/2/page/2#post-390 Sun, 11 May 2008 14:22:27 +0000 11194 390@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>I was not having a problem posting replies, comments or questions until I criticized John McCain's comment on NAFTA and Jobs Training.<br /> After that posting, I got a (the?) bug. Coincidence? Maybe. However I really feel compelled to point out the obvious. We already know that the Bush Administration has metatastic tenticles throughout the internet.<br /> Are they infecting people who crtitcize them on this site? </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/76#post-389 Sun, 04 May 2008 04:10:55 +0000 11370 389@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Hi I know this is primarily a site for exchanging ideas and discussion, but I have come to befriend a few people on the site and every once in a while when I notice that someone is on at the same time as me, I'd like to talk to them without cluttering up someones idea topics. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/74#post-388 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:59:30 +0000 16116 388@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>I agree, in fact I was looking for ideas in education and was shocked not to see a category. As for big thinkers in that area, get Jonathan Kozol if you can, he's spent time in urban centers and written artfully about issues of child poverty and educational equity. It would be interesting to hear from the current DOE head, and topic wise I'm always interested in school reform, ways to see schools be very different places, and ways technology may or may not help us get there. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/75#post-387 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:02:15 +0000 15978 387@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>How do I retrieve the prior day's question of the day?</p> <p>I had a wonderful and deep discussion with an individual and now, 24 hours later, it appear to be gone. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/48#post-386 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:15:29 +0000 15755 386@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Donny Mac and kauaianken, hello! I just now submitted an idea and from there I was able to access my profile and edit it. Hope this helps! </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/48#post-385 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:29:34 +0000 15755 385@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>and here, the same problem. I'm ready to add my profile but the profile button takes me to a blank page. I can log in and browse the site with no problem. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/48#post-384 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:59:33 +0000 1129 384@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Same problem, here. My profile is a blank page. </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/15#post-383 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:28:29 +0000 2 383@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Nepal,</p> <p>Thank you for this feedback. We do want to engage viewers from every country! However, it would be impossible to list every country that we receive ideas from under our "world" category' without making the site too busy. That being said, we hope that as time goes on, users and experts will engage all parts of the globe in conversation. When attaching "keywords" to ideas, its crucial to list the countries that ideas are associated with. That way, when a user wants to search out "Nepal," something will come up! Thanks again, and we look forward to seeing your ideas up on Big Think!</p> <p>Big Thinker </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/4/page/2#post-382 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:24:04 +0000 2 382@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>These are all fantastic suggestions and we thank you for bearing with us as we get the site renovated. All of these problems/issues will be addressed. Thank you!</p> <p>Big Thinker </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/59#post-381 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:17:24 +0000 2 381@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Quick Eye and Zeitgeist,</p> <p>These are both excellent suggestions and we are going to take them into account as we go through our massive renovation. Thank you for your feedback and please keep it coming!</p> <p>Big Thinker </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/11#post-380 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:15:06 +0000 2 380@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Planeta,</p> <p>Thank you for pointing that out! </p> <p>Big Thinker </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/48#post-379 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:13:27 +0000 2 379@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Hi Donny,</p> <p>If you simply log in, click on "profile" and then click on the "settings" button, you should be able to edit your profile. Let us know if you have any more trouble!</p> <p>-Big Thinker </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/71#post-378 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:10:17 +0000 2 378@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Hi Elizabeth,</p> <p>Members cannot delete your comments. Big Thinker does monitor ideas/comments that have been flagged and occasionally will delete an idea or comment that is deemed offensive by the community. If you have questions about a specific idea that disappeared, please email <a href="mailto:info@bigthink.com.">info@bigthink.com.</a> Thanks!<br /> -Big Thinker </p> http://www.bigthink.com/forums/topic/64#post-377 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:49:08 +0000 2 377@http://www.bigthink.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for keeping us alert Cosmos! Always useful to get this feedback... </p>