Web annotations became a W3C standard last week but the world hardly noticed. For years, most conversations on the web have happened in the form of comments. Annotations are different in that they usually reference specific parts of a document and add context. They are often critical or explanatory in nature.
Hypothesis Aggregator Be careful with this plugin on newer versions of WordPress >4.7 as the shortcode was throwing a fatal error on pages on which it appeared. p.s.: First! Kris Shaffer, the plugin’s author Here's his original post announcing the plugin. # Web annotation seems to promote more critical thinking and collaboration but it’s doubtful that…
Though clearly the Amazon system is limited, you can actually do this with Kindle. See this tutorial.
What about sharing my personal annotations on my own website? Is there a way for an individual annotator to relink something like the annotations/highlights at http://boffosocko.com/2012/06/17/big-history/#Highlights%2C+Quotes%2C+%26+Marginalia back to the original document (in this case an ebook)? I've started into the documentation, but I'm curious if there's a simple way of doing this without some 3rd…
A decades-old method called the “bootstrap” is enabling new discoveries about the geometry underlying all quantum theories.
In the 1960s, the charismatic physicist Geoffrey Chew espoused a radical vision of the universe, and with it, a new way of doing physics. Theorists of the era were struggling to find order in an unruly zoo of newfound particles. They wanted to know which ones were the fundamental building blocks of nature and which…
Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto outlines his vision for a centralised global colony ruled by the Silicon Valley oligarchy. I say we must do the exact opposite and create a world with individual sovereignty and a healthy commons.
The verbiage here is a bit inflammatory and very radical sounding, but the overarching thesis is fairly sound. The people who are slowly, but surely building the IndieWeb give me a lot of hope that the unintended (by the people anyway) consequences that are unfolding can be relatively quickly remedied. Marginalia We are sharded beings;…
I've just noticed that the metadata PressForward scrapes is enough to allow highlights and marginalia from Hypothes.is on the original web page to also appear in my copy on my own website! How awesome is that? Example: http://boffosocko.com/2017/01/19/obamas-secret-to-surviving-the-white-house-years-books-the-new-york-times/ #ownallthethings
@ChrisAldrich is this the fragmentions plugin along with @hypothes_is or just the latter? Link to instructions por favor!!!!
Hypothes.is' reply will get you most of the way, but I'll add some additional thoughts below. @BrashEQLibrium @ChrisAldrich Directions for Hypothesis here: https://t.co/dvubzzjBSq And fragmentions ❤️: https://t.co/hPQnddwJC5 — Hypothes.is (@hypothes_is) January 5, 2017 There are a couple of fragmentions plugins in the WordPress repository. I use and recommend WP Fragmention. Mostly it comes down to…
As many know, for the past 6 months or so, I've been slowly improving some of the IndieWeb tools and workflow I use to own what I'm reading both online and in physical print as well as status updates indicating those things. [1][2][3] Since just before IndieWebCamp LA, I've been working on better ways to…
ReadSon of Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald(Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Plot It was a dark and stormy night... In eleven novels in the series, one of them was bound to start off like this, in a sense. Like most in the Fletch series, the story is off like a shot from the beginning, but then just a tad into the first act there's another huge…
ReadFletch Reflected by Gregory Mcdonald(Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Character Oddly, even after two books with Jack as a character, there isn't very much differentiation between he and a young Fletch. I do feel like he's a bit more reserved and not quite as ascerbic in his humor, but there's just something missing to make him a completely differentiated character. I had missed Crystal,…
The world’s connections have become more important than its divisions. To reap the rewards and avoid the pitfalls of this new order, the United States needs to adopt a grand strategy based on three pillars: open societies, open governments, and an open international system.
This may be one of the most interesting things I've read in the past six months. I like the overarching philosophy of the policy direction the writer presents. It feels to me like a policy built from the basic principles from César Hidalgo's book Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies,…
Two strands of populism have long thrived in American politics, both purporting to champion the interests of ordinary people. One shoots upward, at nefarious elites; the other—Trump’s tradition—shoots both up and down, targeting outsiders at the bottom of the ladder as well.
The title was a little link-baitish, but overall, this is an excellent history of the populism movement in America. Recommend. 🔖 I'll have to get a copy of Gest's work to read now that I've seen two references to it in two different articles. My Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia Two different, often competing populist traditions…
Donald Trump’s candidacy is part of a broad populist upsurge throughout the Western world. Economic stasis and rapid cultural change have provoked a backlash across Europe and North America, and enlightened leadership will be needed to respond to legitimate grievances without pandering to the public’s worst instincts.
This is one of the most sane analyses I've seen in a while about what is happening in the world. I recommend it highly. My Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia Trump’s political genius was to realize that many Republican voters were unmoved by the standard party gospel of free trade, low taxes, deregulation, and entitlement reform…
HIS inauguration is still six weeks away but Donald Trump has already sent shock waves through American business. Chief executives—and their companies’ shareholders—are giddy at the president-elect’s promises to slash burdensome regulation, cut taxes and boost the economy with infrastructure spending.
This article takes much the same view of Trump's economic policies as I (and I'm sure many) do. I've been hoping every day for more than a year and a half that more politicians would take Cesar Hidalgo's book Why Information Grows as the basis for their economic policies. Alas... Highlights, Quotes, & Marginalia American…
...a new set of ways to report and share news could arise: a social network where the sources of articles were highlighted rather than the users sharing them. A platform that makes it easier to read a full story than to share one unread. A news feed that provides alternative sources and analysis beneath every…
ReadFletch's Fortune by Gregory Mcdonald(Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Fletch's Fortune has a great high concept plot, which is really saying something for Fletch novels which all seem to have a high concept start from a sprinting position. It also allows for a fairly closed setting and lots of satire. The fact that Fletch is somehow both journalist and not journalist allows for some interesting…
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