Edited by author 01-28-2002 11:51 PM
Hi,

Thanks for the piece.

I'm curious if anyone has yet tried de3, http://d3e.open.ac.uk/index.html, the digital document discourse environment. It seems to have a gorgeous interface, and tools for promoting both course-grained and fine-grained discussion of a document. I believe it was developed originally to encourage discussion of online journal articles, and is now being promoted more broadly. The developers have added some crit-like capabilites of commenting on any web-page, though if I understand it correctly (the test-site is down) the annotations will only be visible to people who are pre-invited. It might be very useful for pre-defined teams.

I think crit.org is a work of genius (thanks Ping!). I'm mystified that it hasn't received the credit, popularity, and ubiquity it deserves.

I hope that amaya and annotea via the w3c.org might make crit type capabilities better known and more ubiquitous, though I don't know much about them.

By the way, I found some of the posts here to be fascinating, but the un-structured nature of this forum confusing.

Thanks Again,
Sam