Free as in Time » book http://james.schumann.ca Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:57:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 CommentPress and the networked book http://james.schumann.ca/life/commentpress-and-the-networked-book/ http://james.schumann.ca/life/commentpress-and-the-networked-book/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:43:34 +0000 James Schumann http://james.schumann.ca/life/commentpress-and-the-networked-book/ Shauna and Sean, take note:

Over the past two years, the Institute for the Future of the Book has run a series of “networked book” experiments exploring the potential of blogs and other popular web apps to stimulate meaningful social interaction around and inside of long texts.

Based on this success, and in order to make this functionality more widely available, the Institute developed CommentPress as an extension to the popular blogging software WordPress. Now anyone with a blog can set up a social reading environment with paragraph-level commenting around a text [...]]]> http://james.schumann.ca/life/commentpress-and-the-networked-book/feed/ 0