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The company, like much of corporate America, has not made good on its promised investment surge from President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
Jeremy Keith (adactio.com)The web turned 30 this year. When I was back at CERN to mark this anniversary, there was a lot of introspection and questioning the direction that the web has taken. Everyone I know that uses the web is in agreement that tracking and surveillance are out of control. It seems only right to question w...
I think Jeremy meant 50 years, but saying 30 made me feel much younger!
Shannon Griffiths (essentiallyshannon.blogspot.com)Hi everybody! Today I just wanted to quickly review an awesome tool called Hypothesis that I've been using all semester for two of my English classes (Currents in American Lit and Critical Theory). As an extension of your web browser (I use Chrome...does anyone not use Chrome?), Hypothesis lets individuals highlight and annotate any online text of their choosing. By allowing (encouraging it, I daresay) people to comment on texts, a sort of community is born and it's truly neat to be involved in.
This blog was written and published by Shannon Griffiths ❧
I notice that this page and the original have two different rel=”canonical” links which means that they have completely different sets of annotations on them. I’m curious if she was given the chance to have them be the same or different as making them the same means that the annotations for each would have been mirrored across rather than having two different sets?
–November 17, 2019 at 12:37AM
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FYI: There’s a second copy of this article on the Hypothes.is blog, but because it has a different “fingerprint” this copy and the copy on the Hypothes.is site have two different sets of annotations.
–November 17, 2019 at 12:45AM
As an open-source project, the Readium Foundation welcomes contributions from everyone - from individuals, groups and corporations. The best way to get started with Readium is to read through the introductory materials on this site, subscribe to the mailing list and, of course, get the source code and start spelunking through it. An important note to bear in mind is that YOU are the Readium team. Readium has no “dedicated team”. Other than a consultant or two and a couple of part-time employees, everything in Readium is done by the Readium contributors - some employed by Readium Foundation members, some simply individual contributors.
Epub.js is an open source Javascript library that allows any web page to render Epub documents on any device with a modern browser.
Epub.js contains a flexible rendering engine and provides a simple interface for common ebook functions such as styling, persistence and pagination.
We release and maintain Epub.js on GitHub, with a growing developer community.
Today, Hypothesis and our partners, NYU Press and NYU Libraries, the Readium Foundation, Evident Point and EPUB.js, are announcing the world’s first open-source, standards-based annotation capability in an EPUB viewer — or rather two EPUB viewers, because we’re launching with identical functionality in the two most popular open-source frameworks, Readium and EPUB.js. For the first time, publishers and others now have a complete annotation solution for all their content published in all three primary digital formats: HTML, PDF and now, EPUB.
I really want to tinker around in this area!
Hypothesis was excited to bring Butch Porter on to our team as Vice President of Partnerships earlier this year and we’ve been wanting to take the time to introduce him to our community. I sat down with Butch recently and got him talking about why he joined Hypothesis and his deep experience working for more than 20 years at the intersection of education, publishing, and scholarly communication. Butch has worked for large educational companies as well as founding, growing, and successfully selling companies that utilize open-source software in a SaaS environment. Butch has spent a great deal of his career working with digitized content both in a personalized learning platform as well as in a vast network of learning object repositories. Butch has testified before state legislatures on the benefits of digitized content and has been an advocate his entire career for the implementation of learning tools that improve student success while driving down the cost of materials. Butch has a passion for education as his dad was a high school principal and his mom a school nurse. You can learn more about Butch in our conversation below and on his LinkedIn page, and reach him at bporter@hypothes.is.
Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)It’s fun when you bump into fellow travelers on the road… Matt Webb has been on his own journey for the past five years and wrote up some thoughts here. Congrats on making it this far Matt! I’m still testing and fiddling with webmention replies and I thought I’d highlight a few passages from...
Chris Aldrich (BoffoSocko)It may still be a while before I can make the leap I’d love to make to using Microsub related technology to replace my daily feed reader habits. I know that several people are working diligently on a Microsub server for WordPress and there are already a handful of reader interfaces available. ...
This website lets you subscribe to RSS feeds for websites that do not support RSS themselves, by using the respective website's API and then translating that data to RSS feeds.
This looks like a useful service. Sort of in the realm of some of Ryan Barrett’s services.
Mike Caulfield (Twitter)One of my beliefs that puts me at odds with a lot of my Twitter tribe, and I welcome pushback on it. Fundamentally think that shame *is* a tool of political/social action (which loses me half my followers) but must be sparingly used in personal relations (which loses other half). https://t.co/czZQWe6hNg
— Mike Caulfield (@holden) November 16, 2019
Kicks Condor (Kicks Condor)‘Accept that the Web ultimately overwhelms all attempts to order it, as for now it seems we must, and you accept that the delicate thread of a personal point of view is often as not your most reliable guide through the chaos. The brittle logic of the hierarchical index has its indispensable uses, of course, as has the crude brute strength of the search engine. But when their limits are reached (and they always are), only the discriminating force of sensibility will do - and the more richly expressed the sensibility, the better.’ — “Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man” by Julian Dibbell (2000)
Origin Story
Matt worked long hours making an incredible theme for Footprints on the James course.1 It’s in WordPress but a large portion of the site ended up being built by hand as complexity increased and time dwindled.2 That means it’s hard-coded HTML/PHP.
Now because the site was so great, w...
This bafflingly huge waste of my time (and yours) was prompted by two seemingly unlinked events. (Of course, no two events are truly unlinked, but let that ride.) First, there was a bafflingly stupid "article" from Mother Jones: Let’s Remember Some Blogs – Mother Jones. Why stupid? Because as fa...