Right now Brainstorm is a lot like playing darts. You throw some ideas up and hope some stick. Most don't. Most get lost in the shuffle. Others may get a few comments, but where does it go from there?

Brainstorm deserves to be more than a glorified suggestion box. There's definitely an audience. There's definitely interest. So where can we take that? Where does that audience want to go?

I feel Brainstorm should incorporate some of the collaborative, non-judgemental and creative-inducing aspects of a whiteboard, a wiki, or a 'traditional' face to face brainstorming session. Tags, clouds, themes, and even prototyping (in some manner) may all have a place. Maybe we need to brainstorm on this :-)

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming There's so much more to what brainstorming can be, and there's definitely more than one way of doing it -- check out http://lbs.cs.berkeley.edu:8080/wiki/index.php/The_Design_Cycle,_Brainstorming if you want to get dizzy. Companies like Ideo (think iPod) http://www.ideo.com/, make their reputation by effective brainstorming.

For more inspiration, check out:

http://brentblog.typepad.com/brentblog/ideo/
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/brainstorming.html
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/index.cfm?featureid=1122

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