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This is why I quite admire initiatives like Hypothesis[1] where we can annotate the web by overlaying an abstraction on top of it which can give a page more dep
by maxt 10y ago
This is why I quite admire initiatives like Hypothesis[1] where we can annotate the web by overlaying an abstraction on top of it which can give a page more depth and context.
Similar projects like the Genius web annotator[2] tries to achieve the same.
It doesn't mean the commenters (or annotators) will be any less mean, but it certainly is preferable to a Disqus widget dangling on the end of a page, or the default Wordpress commenting engine which allows seemingly anyone to comment regardless of whether they signed up or not.
[1]: http://hypothes.is/ http://hypothes.is/
[2]: https://genius.com/web-annotator https://genius.com/web-annotator
- smacktoward 10y agoAnd then someone will invent a tool to let you put annotations on top of someone else's annotations... after which someone else will invent a tool to let someone else put annotations on top of your annotations of someone else's annotations... It's annotations all the way down! :-D
- DonaldFisk 10y agoTed Nelson thought of this idea (annotating hypertext) for use in his Xanadu hypertext project, decades before the World Wide Web existed.
- EazyC 10y agoAre there any legitimate wikipedia competitors though? I still view genius and hypothesis as not in the same field of "encyclopedia knowledge base." To really be a competitor to wikipedia you'd need to look like an actual wiki in my opinion.