Citation: tools for blogging
Jon writes on citation, and provides two wonderful “bookmarklets” for quoting from websites. One works in
Mozilla, the other (probably) in most browsers. (The Mozilla-specific one relies on a Mozilla function to take the current selection and
expand it to include all the relevant HTML context—magic, really.)
It's a wonderful piece worth reading in full. And of course there's a serious point behind all the satire. The web came from scholars and is all about sharing knowledge. Citation is the conversational medium in which we do that. Links are powerful tools that we're still learning to use, but citation is a more than just linking. I'm becoming deeply interested in how we can publish fragments that are easy to cite and that, when cited, carry rich context with them. Phil Windley's [Jon's Radio]
(This, because I want a copy
outside the firewall, too...)
Posted by ronlusk at October 30, 2003 02:45 PM