Genius beta
― Stephen Pringle (@stephen_j_p) on Geniushttp://genius.com/8096577
Genius could change the way we digest the web. What I would like to see is a genius web browser in the early stages. The only way that we can make annotation a living, breathing thing like the web itself is by giving it a sense of omnipresence by making it easily accessible and continually integrated into the web-browsing experience, both mobile and desktop.
Annotation has already started making it's way into journalism, which is to be expected because the very basis of journalism is to democratize information and knowledge on the particulars, or particles as they've been called. As the Web-Annotator comes out of Beta we see live annotation events happening as the GOP Debate takes place. This chatroom/message board type feel is already familiar to a large number of web users, especially the millennial user who grew up with AIM, Yahoo! chatrooms and Myspace. Why is this important? Because the millennial is the next intellectual, the next doctors, professors, academics, novelist, journalist etc. To have a connected network of knowledge as vast as the genius platform reaches allows new possibilities for the way we learn in collegiate and high school settings by connecting us to others around the world with different points of views on materials and ideas. But it also connects us to other pockets of knowledge.
By having this ever expanding knowledge base we are creating an entirely new way of seeing ideas. I believe this would allow us to develop our own ideas in a more creative way by connecting us to other points of knowledge that revolve around a certain topic. What's best about this is that you can comment on anyone's annotation and ask questions or expand on ideas. This opens up the chances for dialogue as well as collaboration on larger or more difficult ideas.
Another place where this could play a great role is art. Specifically the artist insight on their own works. Genius could bring about the rebirth of Art History. Having an artist add their own insight onto a piece of work would then allow it to be weighed agains critical reaction, not in an attempt to assess the art itself but instead to assess what the art can do and how we can make it do those things. By understand the mind of the artist we can see how the rest shaped from there. What this allows is for us to look at a work and then try to figure out how it accomplished the goal or what causes it not to work.
― Stephen Pringle (@stephen_j_p) on Geniushttp://genius.com/8096577
Genius could change the way we digest the web. What I would like to see is a genius web browser in the early stages. The only way that we can make annotation a living, breathing thing like the web itself is by giving it a sense of omnipresence by making it easily accessible and continually integrated into the web-browsing experience, both mobile and desktop.
Annotation has already started making it's way into journalism, which is to be expected because the very basis of journalism is to democratize information and knowledge on the particulars, or particles as they've been called. As the Web-Annotator comes out of Beta we see live annotation events happening as the GOP Debate takes place. This chatroom/message board type feel is already familiar to a large number of web users, especially the millennial user who grew up with AIM, Yahoo! chatrooms and Myspace. Why is this important? Because the millennial is the next intellectual, the next doctors, professors, academics, novelist, journalist etc. To have a connected network of knowledge as vast as the genius platform reaches allows new possibilities for the way we learn in collegiate and high school settings by connecting us to others around the world with different points of views on materials and ideas. But it also connects us to other pockets of knowledge.
By having this ever expanding knowledge base we are creating an entirely new way of seeing ideas. I believe this would allow us to develop our own ideas in a more creative way by connecting us to other points of knowledge that revolve around a certain topic. What's best about this is that you can comment on anyone's annotation and ask questions or expand on ideas. This opens up the chances for dialogue as well as collaboration on larger or more difficult ideas.
Another place where this could play a great role is art. Specifically the artist insight on their own works. Genius could bring about the rebirth of Art History. Having an artist add their own insight onto a piece of work would then allow it to be weighed agains critical reaction, not in an attempt to assess the art itself but instead to assess what the art can do and how we can make it do those things. By understand the mind of the artist we can see how the rest shaped from there. What this allows is for us to look at a work and then try to figure out how it accomplished the goal or what causes it not to work.
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