Comments on: Link that line

By: Emphasis // Zach Seward

Emphasis // Zach Seward — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:15:30 +0000

[…] Sloan sees a comeback narrative: And it seems to me that it’s actually an argument, in code, for the good ol’ fashioned open […]

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:14:55 +0000

Awesome!

By: Michael Donohoe

Michael Donohoe — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:26:05 +0000

Assuming a large adoption — there is a lot of potential for showing what your friends have highlighted or even what everyone has on an aggregate level. I’ve prototyped these scenarios and there its is possible to do without overwhelming the page with color.

By: Michael Donohoe

Michael Donohoe — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:24:01 +0000

Oh yeah — it didn’t even occur to me… if someone wants to write it up before I do I’ll happily include it on github

By: Matt Saler

Matt Saler — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:20:58 +0000

The blogging and link sharing aspect of this is obvious, but it just hit me that this is useful for bookmarking, too. Just saved a bookmark in Pinboard highlighting the paragraphs that hit me in a Times piece recently, where before I would have added that content as the note.

This needs to be on all sites like yesterday.

By: Daniel Bachhuber

Daniel Bachhuber — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:04:55 +0000

Boom, that’s exactly what I was going to suggest. Awesomeness.

By: Britta

Britta — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:05:44 +0000

Neat! A little tricky to discover, but I have no idea how I'd make it easier. These things always remind me of the more-than-a-decade-old Purple Numbers project, which always seemed like a nice idea but was clunky of course.

By: Tim Maly

Tim Maly — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:34:14 +0000

Awesoommmeeee

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:32:47 +0000

You’re totally right. Forget PageRank—now it can be ParagraphRank.

By: Matt Saler

Matt Saler — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:45:09 +0000

Someone’s already made a WordPress plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-emphasis/