Comments on: Are annotations the new comments?

By: Moopheus

Moopheus — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:14:29 +0000

“readers comment on individual sentences or paragraphs or arguments”

Well, you _can_ do this now, but it does require that the commenter explicitly include the pointer to the text.

By: albertsun

albertsun — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:54:21 +0000

There’s also this platform to annotate and share the annotations NYTimes articles: http://quips.nytlabs.com/

By: ckm5

ckm5 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:25:30 +0000

@kaleberg

You should take a look at Zotero if you are using Firefox… http://www.zotero.org/

By: Kaleberg

Kaleberg — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:09:12 +0000

I wouldn’t mind being able to annotate the web for my own use. It’s weird how browsers support bookmarks, but no easy way to keep useful or salient notes on the sites one has viewed.

I can imagine annotation being useful for many individuals and small teams doing research, but not in general. Who would want to see someone else’s annotations, save as part of a particular presentation such as a fisking or how to guide? I do like to read other people’s comments, but, unlike annotations, these remarks, like this one, are addressed to the public.

This sounds like another group think dud.

By: FifthDecade

FifthDecade — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:31:41 +0000

Not practical IMHO. Websites would try hard to block such annotations. Who wants to have a load of paid graffiti artists defacing their site and telling you to go to a competitor for the same product? We’ve seen paid comments on Amazon, and in other places too. Review sites are particularly difficult places to maintain honest opinions on by users.

By: dwhly

dwhly — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:13:58 +0000

It’s worth noting that annotation is generating tremendous momentum across many fronts. There is a W3C Open Annotation Community Working Group that is committed to developing interoperable standards for how different groups can share and exchange annotations. Several years of hard work have gone into the draft spec from a large number of contributors around the world.

Leveraging this core effort, there are projects such as our own, Hypothes.is that are developing the open source software necessary to build this infrastructure for humanity across diverse domains such as the humanities, sciences, open government, media and so on.

By: ckm5

ckm5 — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:36:17 +0000

Third Voice’s failure – http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/ 2001/04/42803?currentPage=all

By: ckm5

ckm5 — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:34:43 +0000

It’s been done done before. There was a company in the 1st dot.com boom called Third Voice that did this – it went nowhere as websites hated it and actively tried to block it. On top of it, it was really hard to monetize.