It is the web, you know.
Sometimes I find myself so involved in trying to find the right tool for me, that
I forget that I don't only need, or want, to make and find my own notes. We're
dealing with the World Wide Web, after all, and I thus want to find the notes
that other people have jotted down as well. If someone has yelled out "how
true" to a particular statement on a page he or she reads, I want to hear
that remark if and when I visit that same page. Tools of this sort are, more or
less, available. Talkbacks permit people to leave a
wide variety of comments, we can view the bookmarks that people put online,
and Furl lets us create publicly accessible
links to pages we find interesting and worthwhile, while also adding comments
to these - an important step in the right direction. Sadly, however, with most
of the tools I've found and tried, I discover that, as is often the case with
marginalia in books, I find myself asking why I went through all the trouble to
read that.
Go to: In the margins of cyberspace.