3,469 Matching Annotations
  1. Jun 2016
    1. (4) Existing law exempts from the Administrative Procedure Act certain actions to maintain, develop, or prescribe processes, procedures, or policies by the Department of General Services that are required or authorized by the Legislature with respect to the general operations of the department or the awarding of state contracts.
    2. (3) Under existing law, contracts by state agencies for services rendered to the state are, with certain exceptions, of no effect unless and until approved by the Department of General Services. Existing law imposes various requirements with respect to contracts for services rendered to the state. Existing law requires the department to develop factors for state agencies to consider in deciding whether to sell or license their intellectual property.
    3. (2) Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services to carry out various powers and duties relating to assisting a state agency in the management and development of intellectual property developed by state employees or with state funding, including, among other duties, developing a database of state-owned intellectual property using specified data and factors that state agencies should consider when deciding whether to sell their intellectual property or license it to others
    1. Exhibit A:

      "AB 2880 requires the state’s Department of General Services to track the copyright status of works created by the state government’s 228,000 employees, and requires every state agency to include intellectual property clauses in every single one of their contracts unless they ask the Department in advance for permission not to do so". source: https://medium.com/medium-legal/ab-2880-kill-this-bill-8f7d9cbd9ac5#.8z6f0ypv4 (Medium Legal)

      How did Medium legal extract Exhibit A from this bill? Perhaps by way of exhibit B?

      Exhibit B:

      http://jonudell.net/h/201520160AB2880_Assembly%20Floor%20Analysis.pdf source: rehosted from http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2880 ("Prepared by "Eric Dang / JUD. / (916) 319-NNNN") (Bill Information -> Bill Analysis )

      Note to both Medium Legal and Eric Dang: If your respective discussions of AB 2880 were anchored to the text of the bill, it would be possible to make sense of them.

    1. Exhibit A:

      "AB 2880 requires the state’s Department of General Services to track the copyright status of works created by the state government’s 228,000 employees, and requires every state agency to include intellectual property clauses in every single one of their contracts unless they ask the Department in advance for permission not to do so". source: https://medium.com/medium-legal/ab-2880-kill-this-bill-8f7d9cbd9ac5#.8z6f0ypv4 (Medium Legal)

      How did Medium legal extract Exhibit A from this bill? Perhaps by way of exhibit B?

      Exhibit B:

      http://jonudell.net/h/201520160AB2880_Assembly%20Floor%20Analysis.pdf source: rehosted from http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2880 ("Prepared by "Eric Dang / JUD. / (916) 319-NNNN") (Bill Information -> Bill Analysis )

      Note to both Medium Legal and Eric Dang: If your respective discussions of AB 2880 were anchored to the text of the bill, it would be possible to make sense of them.

    1. This paper tackles a small, but important, component of data cleaning: data tidying

      That's understated. This paper addresses a huge problem in a compelling way.

  2. May 2016
    1. annotated tour

      The highlighting that surrounds "annotated tour" is from diff-match-patch, not Hypothesis. If this annotation weren't present that would look like it might be a Hypothesis annotation, but would yield nothing when clicked.

      We have two interrelated layers of highlighting here. They ought to be rendered in ways that more clearly reflect that.

    2. software can be developcrafted in the open,

      The verb develop came first to mind, lazily, because that's what we most often say. We develop software. But it's also correct to say we craft it, and that resonates better with the lead.

    3. delightfully!

      It was delightful. But if I haven't managed to convey that feeling already, saying so won't help.

      How do I hope to have done so? In [4] we learn that a software company focused its annual conference of developers and users on the theme of observable work. Maybe you're the sort of person who finds that delightful (whether or not you live in the software world), maybe not. Either way I won't convince you by asserting that it's so. I have to point in a direction and hope you go there. If you do, you're engaged in a way not otherwise possible.

    4. to explain -- to myself and others

      This certainly explained some things to me about my own process. I'm doubtful it's of much use to others as is. The technique shows some promise but would need lots of refinement.

    5. I am recording a detailed history of this blog post as I write it

      In this case I used git and made frequent commits -- not quite as often as I saved, but in the end there were 72 commits.

    6. My intuition tells me that anotation of version history

      I liked the word "intution" here, but it also felt uncomfortable. In [ 68 ] it went away, in favor of "I think"

    7. What kind of tool would enable an expert writer to do that for the benefit of others?

      In [ 61 ] this becomes "How might an expert writer bring those rules to the surface, reflect on them, and explain them to others?"

    8. We apply rules that we've internalized.

      Much better than [ 56 ]'s overlong and passive "It's second nature for us to apply a set of rules that we've internalized." In [ 56 ]'s favor, though, it did bring in the word "apply" which had been missing.

    9. It's useful to see what decisions were made.

      I hope I didn't leave this in place. It's another case of asserting without demonstrating. Ah, good, I didn't, see [ 53 ].

    10. in whvichted accomplished programmers to explain their thinking,

      From: "Beautiful Code, in which accomplished programmers explain their thinking,"

      to:

      "Beautiful Code invited accomplished programmers to explain their thinking"

      Why? It wouldn't have occurred to me to ask, but now that I do, I suppose because while both 9-word clauses, the second paints a picture of how Andy Oram and Greg Wilson assembled their team of authors.

    11. wisubjecthing each iteration subject to highly granular anaysis

      More activation. From "with each iteration subject to" to "subjecting each iteration". Why don't I just internalize the rule and not need to make these adjustments?

      (Can annotations such as these help train a writing assistant I would actually value?)

    12. we crafting ocraft prose

      This was just basic hygiene. I turned a passive construct ("the crafting of prose") into an active one ("we can craft prose"). I'm not sure it's always right to do that, but it often is, and it feels right here.

    13. For is an expert writer those decisions are often tacit because we've internalized a set of rules.

      Here's the resolution of [ 49 ]'s "It's useful to see what decisions were made." -- an almost completely vacuous sentence.

      This is a strong sentence. Strong enough, I decided in [ 55 ] to open a new paragraph with it.

    14. setquence

      I switched from set (unordered) to sequence (revisions) because although the editing process is not linear -- I jump around all the time -- the revisions do occur in (and are presented as) a sequence.

    15. constinuantlly tweak and revise

      Finally in [ 44 ] I arrived at "we continually revise". It took a long time to get there. It had been "constantly tweak and revise" since [ 34 ]. I like "continually" better than "constantly" because it resonates with change, not stasis. And if you're revising you're by definition tweaking, saying it twice adds nothing and so detracts.

    16. When I explored Federated Wiki last year, I got a glimpse of the sort of versioning that could usefully support analysis of prose craft.

      This sentence and the next two flowed nicely.

    17. The enabling tools don't exist but I'm writing this post in a way that I hope will reveal what they might be.

      This is the what I had in mind. Is it interesting and useful? I'm still deciding.

    18. software can be craft softwared in the open

      Again the passive crept in! I had to coerce "software can be crafted in the open" to "we can craft software in the open".

    19. in a similanrly bopenefit fromway.

      I switched from "in an open way" to "in a similarly open way" to reinforce the connection between the two domains in play here: code and prose.

    20. The journey from apprentice to master craftsman depends on the visibility of all aspects of craft work.

      I'd rather not open with a quotation. It's best to come up with a strong original lead. But this one really nails Observable Work which is the theme I'm returning to here.

  3. Apr 2016
    1. The next hurdle is getting organizations, including governments to allow the use of self-sovereign identities as the basis for their administrative identities.

      What's the plausible bootstrap here?

      Just thinking out loud: could a government that already binds claims to state-issued IDs transfer them to a self-issued ID in a way that would meet at least some requirements? Could those two mechanisms live side-by-side for some trial period?

    1. Back in the early 1960s both Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart saw the need for hyperdocument systems to include direct linking to any point in a file, and both implemented the feature early on in their respective feature-rich systems.

      And here we are, 50 years on, still trying to explain why this need exists and what granular addressing will enable people to do.

    1. In August 1987, under pressure from Ronald Reagan’s drive for deregulation, the FCC abolished the fairness doctrine

      Ah, so that's where Rush came from.

    1. It was hard to pull together the sources for this and correlate them. I spent a lot of time refinding table 14 in article foo, for example.

      Doing it over again today I'd get a ton of mileage out of Hypothesis annotation.

    1. people’s personal and private pages—and by private, I mean one which disables or controls comment sections

      I would think a private page is one that I keep to myself or share only with selected others.

    1. The idea of a web that maps out a knowledge domain as a snapshot of our current thought instead of a stream of our current speech is relegated to Wikipedia and occasional references to the Memex.

      Yes. I'm sure that's what attracted to Hypothesis, which I do think can provide an appropriate conversational complement to FedWiki. We need ways to add layers and facets to artifacts that grow richer and deeper as we interact with them.

    1. Web annotation services never seem to take hold (see Third Voice, Reframe It, Diigo, etc). But if you could actually add a layer of comments that revealed better information than on the underlying page, it might have some appeal

      We think so.

    1. What’s missing is tools in the middle — general purpose end-user tools.

      Maybe what's really missing is the ability to recognize the generality in the tools we have. RSS and social tagging are two that came and went with little real appreciation for their protean capabilities.

    1. Ken Caldeira is a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science, at Stanford University, who studies ocean acidification.

      As a member of the ClimateFeedback team, he contributes to the annotation of mainstream articles about climate change, for example here.

    1. Eleven leading Republican candidates for president gathered at the Ronald Reagan library in California for the second GOP debate on Wednesday night.

      Eleven! Seems so long ago.

    1. The plugins in the application are mostly distributed as internal gems, but then there has to be some parts in the core application (controllers, models, etc.) that call these plugin classes explicitly. To me this is not a typical plugin architecture, just some way to organize the code in gems and define a unified interface for its configuration. Besides, it doesn't follow the Open-Closed Principle, because, as far as I can tell, the system has to know about the plugins in order to use them, so the only way to actually write a plugin is modifying the code in the core system to make it aware of the new options/features.
    1. This seems like something there should be funding for: a way to bring the networked collaboration of git and the network effects of GitHub to a non-technical, academic audience. Academics trying to shoehorn git to fit their practices shows there’s a need.

      Not just for academics. It matters for any profession whose work processes and/or products are increasingly represented in digital form.

      http://www.infoworld.com/article/2886828/collaboration-software/github-for-the-rest-of-us.html was, in retrospect, overly optimistic. GitHub scratches the surface w/respect to data types richer than lines of text (e.g. GeoJSON) but I agree with you that this won't be a priority for GitHub and will need to be addressed with very different needs front and center.

    1. AltSchool raises so many questions about what progressive education plus technology should or could look like; it certainly shows what I’d argue is the sort of superficial approach to "fixing education" that’s all too common from Silicon Valley technologists. Read a book or two; then start an education company. How hard can it be?

      Pretty hard, it turns out, when your dominant worldview is disruption.

    1. When Ventilla quit Google to start AltSchool, in the spring of 2013, he had no experience as a teacher or an educational administrator. But he did have extensive knowledge of networks, and he understood the kinds of insights that can be gleaned from big data.

      And that, of course, is what education has lacked all along: insight gleaned from "big" data.

    1. My daughter even recently told me about a paper she read where birds (birds!) outperformed humans on a pattern-recognition task that involved confirmation bias

      I would love to annotate that sentence with a reference!

    1. This huge, dynamic industry, which is generating so much wealth, has walled itself off from most of the workforce, telling millions of people that they cannot participate. This situation obviously shortchanges a lot of workers, but it also hurts tech companies by depriving them of talent. 

      The "culture-fit" ghetto you describe also deprives the company of access to empathy for the experiences of its user population. In the case of HubSpot those experiences may skew toward the same demographic, of course, but in general, a diversity mismatch between a company and its constituencies can't be good.

    1. Over the past several months, I have found the granular addressability so indispensable, I find it annoying when people don't use purple numbers.

      We agree!

    1. It’s my blog, where I write and share important thoughts about my life.

      I'd strengthen that in the following way: "It is my primary presence on the web, the only one that I control and designate as the home of my online identity."

    1. But then it hit me. Code is not literature and we are not readers. Rather, interesting pieces of code are specimens and we are naturalists.

      Wonderful and accurate.

  4. Mar 2016
    1. If we drastically and immediately reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses we are currently emitting, the sea level will still continue to rise as the result of the warming we have already seen, but it should be less, likely around 40 cm (15 inches). If we continue increasing greenhouse gas emissions at the current rate, the increase in sea level could be up to double that amount, or 80 cm (31 inches) by 2100.

      test

  5. Feb 2016
    1. Jon, actually :-)

      The recency sort makes this much more noticeable. But, sorting the whole thread by recency is a blunt way to emphasize recent activity. We're thinking about other solutions.

    1. which could then be examined for document equivalence

      Another kind of human/algo partnership, in that publisher /intend/ to state equivalences using metadata, but those equivalences are typically not validated by eyeballs and so are shaky.

    2. can help provide algorithm authors with “eyeballs” and corrections on their annotations

      This human/algo partnership might be the biggest deal of all.

    3. which means that anyone with access to a document can submit it to an annotation server and layer annotations upon the document.

      Whether it's always ok to relay document content to analysis servers that promise only to add annotations is an untested assumption. Do we need to say more about that?

    4. opportunities

      Excellent list. I might add:

      • unifying scattered versions and representations by marrying automatic analysis and human curation
    5. readily enable developers to consume text and annotate it according to their own logic.

      Add:

      Annotations can be viewed and discussed using the Hypothesis client in any of its modes (Chrome extension, proxy, site-embedded).

      Annotations can also be painted directly on this server's pages by means of open-source JavaScript libraries that encapsulate the Hypothesis client's core "anchoring" capability.

      Annotations are available for reuse and integration by way of the Hypothesis API which delivers filter and query results, in JSON, along these facets: annotation ID, URL, user, group, tag, and freetext.

    6. Annotations can be placed manually on documents via a Google Chrome plugin or a JavaScript code snippet

      by means of a Chrome plugin, or the same code delivered by a web proxy or embedded in a website.

    1. wherer0=bAx0is the initial residual andKn(A;r0) = spanfr0;Ar0;:::;An1r0gis thenth Krylov subspace generated withAandr0. We concentrate on minimalresidual methods here, i.e., methods that construct iterates of the form (2.2) suchthat the residualrn:=bAxnhas minimalkkH-norm, that iskrnkH=kbAxnkH=kbA(x0+yn)kH=kr0AynkH= miny2Kn(A;r0)kr0AykH= minp20nkp(A)r0kH
    1. Under the influence of “shorter is better”, the temptation is to continue to shorten the control loop, but that results in a loss of control.

      As in all things, rules of thumb can be over-applied. It can be so hard to step back and see that.

      Thanks, Kent.

    1. The second is money to fund development of those inventions.

      If we can crack the code on demand, I'm not sure that much new invention is needed, nor that what is needed will be particularly expensive.

    2. in fact we’re just copying data over a network

      Albeit according to varying terms of engagement. The web page that appears in my browser is more ephemeral than an email. But not necessarily, if I inject it into the Wayback Machine it might be (relatively) permanent.

    3. We don’t even agree about what to call the places where we keep the data we might share. Personal clouds? PIMS? Vaults? Lockers?

      Even calling them places is tricky. But it's hard to think about interwoven networks: mine that I control, interwoven with yours that you control, interwoven with networks representing the agency of other individuals and organizations.

  6. Jan 2016
    1. ost in the hoopla about such skills is the embarrassing fact that once upon a time, one coulddo such computing tasks, and even much more ambitious ones, much more easily than in this fancynew setting!

      So true. It's analogous to SQL vs NoSQL, the latter can help solve the problem of "sharding" big data sets, but once-straightforward queries become procedural, non-standard, and demanding of "new skills"

    1. AB_2298772

      Antibody ID: AB_2298772

      Target Antigen: Nrg1

      Vendor: Millipore Go To Vendor

      Cat Num: MAB377

      Proper Citation: (Millipore Cat# MAB377, RRID:AB_2298772)

      Reference: PMID:16680766,PMID:16680782,PMID:16705673,PMID:16705682,PMID:16736475,PMID:16786555,PMID:16856135,PMID:16856175,PMID:16871537,PMID:16958104,PMID:17111361,PMID:17120294,PMID:17311320,PMID:17311323,PMID:17335037,PMID:17348014,PMID:17348018,PMID:17444497,PMID:17990272,PMID:17990275,PMID:18022946,PMID:18067150,PMID:18092335,PMID:18095323,PMID:18196540,PMID:18271024,PMID:18273885,PMID:18288691,PMID:18335562,PMID:18383051,PMID:18386786,PMID:18404667,PMID:18551525,PMID:18615557,PMID:18634004,PMID:18697194,PMID:18698599,PMID:18709662,PMID:18720412,PMID:18770870,PMID:18785627,PMID:18853423,PMID:18925632,PMID:18973275,PMID:19003903,PMID:19058187,PMID:19058188,PMID:19226508,PMID:19296475,PMID:19330822,PMID:19350644,PMID:19363795,PMID:19363802,PMID:19399893,PMID:19399895,PMID:19412934,PMID:19459218,PMID:19479992,PMID:19480001,PMID:19496176,PMID:19827160,PMID:19844997,PMID:19882721,PMID:19924828,PMID:19937713,PMID:19950118,PMID:20034056,PMID:20187140,PMID:20503425,PMID:20506477,PMID:20533358,PMID:20533365,PMID:20575070,PMID:20575073,PMID:20593361,PMID:20653028,PMID:20653035,PMID:20737593,PMID:20853508,PMID:20853510,PMID:20886617,PMID:20886626,PMID:20963823,PMID:20963826,PMID:21031559,PMID:21120924,PMID:21165980,PMID:21246550,PMID:21246554,PMID:21344400,PMID:21452201,PMID:21452234,PMID:21456003,PMID:21456007,PMID:21456011,PMID:21674491,PMID:21674497,PMID:21681751,PMID:21800304,PMID:22020803,PMID:22120979,PMID:22134929,PMID:22173709,PMID:22252518,PMID:22323214,PMID:22351306,PMID:22430145,PMID:22434575,PMID:22473338,PMID:22605579,PMID:22628012,PMID:22628090,PMID:22684983,PMID:22700217,PMID:22778007,PMID:22829396,PMID:22886938,PMID:23124836,PMID:23172137,PMID:23296594,PMID:23322491,PMID:23508745,PMID:23602964,PMID:23623813,PMID:23682015,PMID:23749483,PMID:24668417,PMID:25009276,PMID:25031405,PMID:25048050,PMID:25100604,PMID:25160573,PMID:25305665

      Reference: PMID:16680766

      Clonality: monoclonal antibody

      Clone ID: None

      Host Organism: mouse

      Comments: We can any commentsUseful for western blot, immunoprecipitation, immunohistochemistry, immunocytochemistry


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    2. AB_10000240

      Antibody ID: AB_10000240

      Target Antigen: GFP See NCBI gene

      Vendor: Aves Labs Go To Vendor

      Cat Num: GFP-1020

      Proper Citation: (Aves Labs Cat# GFP-1020, RRID:AB_10000240)

      Reference: PMID:16958092,PMID:18386786,PMID:19003791,PMID:19003874,PMID:19711380,PMID:19827160,PMID:19882715,PMID:19950390,PMID:20235095,PMID:21120924,PMID:21452201,PMID:21452247,PMID:21674487,PMID:21858821,PMID:22120520,PMID:22315167,PMID:22434575,PMID:22473338,PMID:22522945,PMID:22592759,PMID:22605619,PMID:22605640,PMID:22791192,PMID:22987798,PMID:23787922,PMID:24825838,PMID:25031405

      Reference: PMID:16958092

      Clonality: polyclonal antibody

      Clone ID: None

      Host Organism: chicken

      Comments: Immunohistochemistry, 1:2500-1:5000 Western Blot.


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    3. IMSR_JAX:003718

      Database: IMSR

      Species: Mouse

      Name: FVB-Tg(GadGFP)45704Swn/J

      Background: None

      Affected Gene: Gad1

      Genomic Alteration: Gad1

      Phenotype: None

      Notes: gene symbol note: glutamate decarboxylase 1 coisogenic strain, mutant strain glutamate decarboxylase 1

      Reference:

      Availability: live mouse

      Catalog ID: JAX:003718

      Proper Citation: RRID:IMSR_JAX:003718


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    4. IMSR_JAX:007677

      Database: IMSR

      Species: Mouse

      Name: CB6-Tg(Gad1-EGFP)G42Zjh/J

      Background: None

      Affected Gene: Tg(Gad1-EGFP)G42Zjh

      Genomic Alteration: Tg(Gad1-EGFP)G42Zjh

      Phenotype: None

      Notes: gene symbol note: transgene insertion G42, Z Josh Huang mutant stock transgene insertion G42, Z Josh Huang

      Reference:

      Availability: live mouse

      Catalog ID: JAX:007677

      Proper Citation: RRID:IMSR_JAX:007677


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    5. IMSR_RBRC03674

      Database: IMSR

      Species: Mouse

      Name: ICR.Cg-Gad1<sup>tm1.1Tama</sup>/Rbrc

      Background: None

      Affected Gene: Gad1

      Genomic Alteration: tm1.1Tama

      Phenotype: None

      Notes: gene symbol note: glutamic acid decarboxylase 1 mutant stock targeted mutation 1.1, Nobuaki Tamamaki

      Reference:

      Availability: live mouse

      Catalog ID: RBRC03674

      Proper Citation: RRID:IMSR_RBRC03674


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    6. IMSR_JAX:012570

      Database: IMSR

      Species: Mouse

      Name: B6;129S-Gt(ROSA)26Sor<sup>tm34.1(CAG-Syp/tdTomato)Hze</sup>/J

      Background: None

      Affected Gene: Gt(ROSA)26Sor

      Genomic Alteration: tm34.1(CAG-Syp/tdTomato)Hze

      Phenotype: None

      Notes: gene symbol note: gene trap ROSA 26, Philippe Soriano mutant stock targeted mutation 34.1, Hongkui Zeng

      Reference:

      Availability: live mouse

      Catalog ID: JAX:012570

      Proper Citation: RRID:IMSR_JAX:012570


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    7. IMSR_JAX:007905

      Database: IMSR

      Species: Mouse

      Name: B6;129S6-Gt(ROSA)26Sor<sup>tm9(CAG-tdTomato)Hze</sup>/J

      Background: None

      Affected Gene: Gt(ROSA)26Sor

      Genomic Alteration: tm9(CAG-tdTomato)Hze

      Phenotype: None

      Notes: gene symbol note: gene trap ROSA 26, Philippe Soriano mutant stock targeted mutation 9, Hongkui Zeng

      Reference:

      Availability: live mouse

      Catalog ID: JAX:007905

      Proper Citation: RRID:IMSR_JAX:007905


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    8. IMSR_JAX:012569

      Database: IMSR

      Species: Mouse

      Name: B6;129S-Gt(ROSA)26Sor<sup>tm32(CAG-COP4*H134R/EYFP)Hze</sup>/J

      Background: None

      Affected Gene: COP4

      Genomic Alteration: COP4

      Phenotype: None

      Notes: gene symbol note: Channelrhodopsin mutant stock Channelrhodopsin

      Reference:

      Availability: live mouse

      Catalog ID: JAX:012569

      Proper Citation: RRID:IMSR_JAX:012569


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    1. The Internet is a vast, vibrant, diverse ecosystem. The Cloud is one, relatively tiny part of the Internet, a monoculture of protocols and business models.

      I wonder if we could add:

      The Internet is the computer. Clouds (plural: Amazon's, Google's, Microsoft's) are operating systems that run on it.

    1. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority. Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I it" relationship for an "I thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful. Paul Tillich has said that sin is separation.

      In Behind the Dream, MLK's lawyer, friend, and adviser Clarence Jones writes:

      What amazed me was that there was absolutely no reference material for Martin to draw upon. There he was [in the Birmingham jail] pulling quote after quote from thin air. The Bible, yes, as might be expected from a Baptist minister, but also British prime minister William Gladstone, Mahatma Gandhi, William Shakespeare, and St. Augustine.

      Actually he seems to have misremembered Gladstone and Shakespeare, but might also have included: Thomas Acqinas, Margin Buber, Pauil Tillich, T.S. Eliot, Reinhold Neibuhr. Martin Luther, John Bunyan, Abraham Lincoln

      Jones continues:

      I have often said the sheer processing power of Martin’s mind left me awestruck. His dexterity with memory and words ran along the lines of the cut-and-paste function in today’s computer programs. The “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” showed his recall for the written material of others; his grueling schedule of speeches illuminated his ability to do the same for his own words. Martin could remember exact phrases from several of his unrelated speeches and discover a new way of linking them together as if they were all parts of a singular ever-evolving speech. And he could do it on the fly.

      MLK kept all these sources in working memory, available for instant retrieval and for agile recombination.

      Nowadays we outsource that working memory to the web. What thoughts are harder for us to think? What statements are harder for us to make, especially extemporaneously and without notes?

      IBehind the Dream

    1. How do you curate your annotations, and your crowd’s annotations, into something useful that moves beyond that single moment of time?

      A key question. To help answer it I have been exploring a tool that isolates and displays just the annotations for an article.

      You can find a static version of that view, for the article that was the subject of your flashmob, at http://jonudell.net/h/flashmob-skills-and-strategies.html.

      The live version -- which will work for any H-annotated article -- is http://h.jonudell.info:8080/annos_for_url?url=http%3A%2F%2Flearning.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F11%2F12%2Fskills-and-strategies-annotating-to-engage-analyze-connect-and-create%2F

      This is purely an exploration, at this point, that serves a few different needs for me, including viewing, debugging, and exporting annotations.

      But I am very interested in how tools that present the annotation layer in ways complementary to our primary view (i.e. anchored to the text) can help with curation and sensemaking.