johnpettus

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   by johnpettus 8y ago

   You are literally pretending you know the motivation of the writer, and responding to it instead of engaging with the content. Mind reading + ad hominem You should probably not criticize the quality of other people's critical thinking.
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   by johnpettus 10y ago

   I talked to a VC who saw their original pitch. Said it was the fastest growth curve he's seen in his career. That was back when they were RapGenius.
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   by johnpettus 10y ago

   Isn't that the concept behind Evernote? (Not a user, but that's what I always thought it's thing was.)
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   by johnpettus 10y ago

   climatefeedback.org is a good implementation of Hypothes.is They get scientists to check climate-related articles. Check them out and support them if you can. Good people doing good work.
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   by johnpettus 10y ago

   I know the guys who worked on the W3C spec. They worked their butts off. I'm hopeful they'll have some success. But my system (Fiskkit.com, if curious) can't consume W3C annotations because we have more narrowly constrained p
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   by johnpettus 10y ago

   I don't think it's unsolvably flawed. It's just hard as hell. If you take a structured data approach to annotation and commenting, you can use analytics to weed the naturally-occurring power law distribution of comments down