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however if we can identify the primary subcomponents of annotation and enable their inclusion directly into web browser applications, user interactions will be noticeably smoother.

broadest possible array of use cases and needs inform the standards process

W3C convened contributors to the Open Annotation Community Group to draft the elements of a charter for a formal Working Group on Web Annotations.

We believe we have effective approaches for these and other challenges, but further development and wider testing are still needed.

We assume that there is a need for annotation that the web does not presently satisfy.

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The vast majority of the web is dark to interaction of any kind. When it does exist, usually it is in the form of the comment widget which restricts conversations to general discussions of the whole article, making targeted discussion of specific assertions or facts more difficult. As a consequence, traditional commenting leads to sprawling, lower quality discussions which are difficult to manage and awkward to navigate.

While the idea of a generalized conversation layer over the web has captured the imaginations of many for decades, we have tested this assumption ourselves in more focused ways.

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conduct their own research: annotating and organizing source material, saving links back to original context, enabling searches through this material and facilitating private discussions with other collaborators in those locations.

The process of tying two items together is the important thing.

Need a place to post websites w/ descriptions and tags

The ReadSocial people are the same ones who brought us BookGlutton. They have branched out into new areas. Publishers should be looking at Readsocial carefully. It provides a relatively painless way to create a social network around their books, magazines, articles, etc. The network can flow across different reading systems and the virtual groups can connect down to the paragraph level. I think it would be extremely useful for such things as travel books and college guides.

javascript web applications and elasticsearch

Developers these days are spoiled with choice when it comes to selecting an MV* framework for structuring and organizing their JavaScript web apps.

Rich JavaScript Applications – the Seven Frameworks (Throne of JS, 2012)

What are the some of the challenges that we are going to face in the next 5 years?

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We use @Caolan's excellent Async library. Our code is not 5 level deep nested callbacks. We currently have about 45,000 lines of Javascript in our main repository. In this code base, we have used the async library as our only flow control library. Our current use of the library in our code base: async.waterfall: 74 async.forEach: 55 async.forEachSeries: 21 async.series: 8 async.parallel: 4 async.queue: 3 I highly suggest, that if you are unsure about Node.js and are going to do an experiment project, make sure you use Async, Step, or one of the other flow control modules for your experiment. It will help you better understand how most larger Node.js applications are built.

We decided to make a spreadsheet of the possible environments we would consider using for our next generation product. The inputs were: Community Velocity Correctness (aka, static typing-like things) Debuggability/Tooling Downtime/Compile Time Libraries (Standard/External) Testability Team Experience Performance Production We setup the spreadsheet so we could change the weight of each category. This let us play with our feelings, what if we only cared about developer velocity? What if we only cared about testability?

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"Reframeit can help curb the power of misinformation to distort our national conversation about issues that matter. Anyone who cares about the quality of public dialogue in this country should welcome the transparency it makes possible," notes Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and co-founder of The Root.

This has strong implications for both outbound marketing usage and internal contextual notes.

A case could be made for a sponsored channel - so Nike could have runner's reframeit notes appended to their rivals sites and to user forums for example. If you subscribed to this channel you would see Nike's perspective on all pages on the web they chose to mark up.

For a rapidly changing page, such as a heavily edited wiki, reframeit could prove somewhat redundant as content is removed or heavily edited, but for core content the power of this tool is evident.

The matrix of 'channels' you share comments with can be deep: the same page could have several sets of your notes appended to it for specific groups of viewers with specific interests.

Comments can be framed as a General Comment, Question, Counter or Supporting Argument, Suggestion, Explanation, Answer, Cause or Effect from a pull down menu above the field where you type your comments.

intriguing from a workflow perspective is the ability to add notes to internal web applications, so notes can be appended to specific products for example to provide everything from training to departmental feedback

Providing context to specific content is key to so much of web communication and the holy grail of social media marketing practitioners.

From a commercial perspective an example could be marking up your competitor's web site and sharing it with your sales team, who can continue to update their contextual notes in the field.

video above demonstrates marking up the transcript of a political speech with associated facts and links using reframeit that will be associated with specific areas of that content for as long as you want them to be.

Let's rethink the idea of the state: it must be a catalyst for big, bold ideas

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The formula is simple: divide the population by the number of congressional or legislative districts and use the existing geo-political boundaries to come as close to the required number as possible.

The federal government already spends enough on student aid to cover tuition for every public college student in America. Maybe it's time to try.

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