{"id":279,"date":"2007-07-27T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/27\/commentpress\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T05:01:41","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T13:01:41","slug":"commentpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/webwork\/commentpress\/","title":{"rendered":"CommentPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/iraqreport\/1-precipitate-withdrawal#comment_contentIndex_jumptoptag\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"comment press example\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/comment-press.jpg\" title=\"comment press example\" alt=\"comment press example\" height=\"328\" width=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Institute for the Future of the Book has released a WordPress theme &#8220;designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text.&#8221; Information about the theme can be found at its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/commentpress\/\" title=\"wordpress comment theme\" target=\"_blank\">dedicated site<\/a>, although an if:book (the institute&#8217;s blog) post probably makes a better introduction. As explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/commentpress_10.html\" title=\"if:book\" target=\"_blank\">there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This little tool is the happy byproduct of a year and a half spent hacking WordPress to see whether a popular net-native publishing form, <em>the blog<\/em>, which, most would agree, is very good at covering the present moment in pithy, conversational bursts but lousy at handling larger, slow-developing works requiring more than chronological organization\u2014whether this form might be refashioned to enable social interaction around long-form texts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enabling a social approach to long texts via a blogging platform is an interesting project. I&#8217;m not certain how transparent the read\/write interface is at the moment, but it&#8217;s still developing, and certainly something to watch. It seems most applicable to texts that reward close scrutiny, because it&#8217;s rather slow going. <em>Finnegans Wake<\/em> might be an interesting text to experiment with &#8212; could we add a choral audio file for different voices to add their readings to the mix?<\/p>\n<p>For an example of the theme in action, click through on the image above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for the Future of the Book has released a WordPress theme &#8220;designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text.&#8221; Information about the theme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}