OK so maybe some of his claims are comically grandiose.
But I've found Rap Genius useful recently for finding explanations of poems by Yeats,Wordsworth and many others. The convenience of being able to see the explanation right there without having to scroll or navigate away really helped me get into the poetry. I can see this approach being extended into many other areas.
Theres a lot of potential in the idea of being able to annotate select parts of a document instead of having to comment on the whole document. I think we need an annotator for the web. Maybe it would work as a browser extension and users could annotate any part of any website with extra comments , photos etc.
Another approach might be to develop an embeddable widget which could allow anyone to annotate any part of a web page.
But I couldnt figure how to handle changes to the original document if the model isnt under our control.
But I've found Rap Genius useful recently for finding explanations of poems by Yeats,Wordsworth and many others. The convenience of being able to see the explanation right there without having to scroll or navigate away really helped me get into the poetry. I can see this approach being extended into many other areas.
Theres a lot of potential in the idea of being able to annotate select parts of a document instead of having to comment on the whole document. I think we need an annotator for the web. Maybe it would work as a browser extension and users could annotate any part of any website with extra comments , photos etc.
Another approach might be to develop an embeddable widget which could allow anyone to annotate any part of a web page.
But I couldnt figure how to handle changes to the original document if the model isnt under our control.