New Feedback and Collaboration Experiment from Institute for the Future of the Book

New Feedback and Collaboration Experiment from Institute for the Future of the Book I just heard from Bob Stein at the Institute for the Future of the Book about a “new experiment launched yesterday extending the Gamer Theory model to a traditional academic paper.” He says it “might be applicable to classes where you want students all to comment on the same paper or papers. As soon as we've had more experience with this paper and with a few others, we'll release the code so anyone can use this.” The experiment is here: http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/holyofholies/ and a nice post from manan ahmed in the history news network is here: http://www.hnn.us/blogs/entries/32690.html As one early user notes: “Today, however, Ben Vershbow and the amazing people at Institute for the Future of the Book introduced me to their notion of a networked working paper: Mitchell Stephens's The Holy of Holies: On the Constituents of Emptiness. Taking off of their earlier work on McKenzie Wark's Gamer Theory, this newly imagined paper provides each section with a dynamic margin to the right of the text where can post comments on individual paragraphs, and also annotate the text with links and refereneces to related materials. Only thing I can think of adding is a space for the meta-discussion - that is, the discussion of the paper as a whole. One can easily see the immense potential of this - especially in the many-to-one discussion model. That is, a number of people commenting/parsing one basic text."