[Air-l] A new web annotation tool

[jeremy hunsinger]

I'd strongly advise that people stop using explorer, various national 
governments have advised against using it. and stopped using it because 
of the huge number of security holes it provides.  One of the best 
strategies for information security is to avoid information 
monocultures, and internet explorer seems to provide one of most 
convincing case in points of this, because its basic core functionality 
is tied into the o.s. itself, and thus its security problems are the 
whole computers problem, whereas taking a browser like firefox, opera, 
safari, etc. is far more safer because it is not a core part of the 
o.s. and if it has an exploit, it is far less likely directly affect 
the o.s..

of course, with over 1,000,000 zombie windows machines on the net, 
what's one more, and information isn't that important,  to worry about 
its security that's just added stress, who cares if someone wipes your 
hd or something worse, so, use explorer if you wish or... at your own 
risk.  but I advise against it.

On Mar 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Cristian Berrio wrote:

> I know that explorer is a poin in the neck, but I feel reluctant to 
> add another browsed to my heavy-software-loaded PC. Can't this be 
> useable with explorer?
>
>> From: "Scott A. Golder" <golder at media.mit.edu>
>> Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>> To: air-l at aoir.org
>> Subject: [Air-l] A new web annotation tool
>> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:11:24 -0500
>>
>>
>> Hi, AIRfans.  I've just finished building a new tool for discussing 
>> news articles in which users annotate directly on the articles' web 
>> pages. I'm looking for people who might enjoy using it to try it out.
>>
>> It's called Webbed Footnotes.  While of course web annotation is a 
>> pretty well-trod space, my goal is twofold: first, I designed it with 
>> the goal of making even a heavily-annotated page remain legible. 
>> Secondly, the "approval" system I've implemented is designed to 
>> promote more useful/interesting content.  There's more about this on 
>> the project's webpage.
>>
>> The URL is: http://web.media.mit.edu/~golder/projects/webbedfootnotes
>>
>> If you, or your students, colleagues or friends enjoy current events 
>> discussion online, please share this with them.  I would appreciate 
>> it, and hopefully those who use it will find it useful and enjoyable.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> --
>> Scott A. Golder
>> golder at media.mit.edu
>> http://web.media.mit.edu/~golder/
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