Chris Aldrich

#40031 (Consider Adding Web Annotations to WordPress) – WordPress Trac https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/40031#comment:5

Mostly to provide some additional resources to the conversation I'll add the following:

Web Annotation Working Group's [https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6156 three recommendations and two additional notes]

Prior to the WPTavern post which motivated the conversation, there was a [https://hypothes.is/blog/annotation-is-now-a-web-standard/ post written by Dan Whaley of Hypothes.is] who worked extensively within the group. This post has some interesting overview, but those interested in a fully implemented annotation platform (presumably using many of the pieces of the proposed standard) should take a quick look at [https://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is], what it is and what it allows. Their front page has a pretty useful video introduction.

Keep in mind that some of the standard is geared specifically toward browsers and browser vendors, though WordPress could certainly implement some of the pieces from the CMS side.

#BigHistory @TheEconomist on Gangnam Style and Productivity
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/06/daily-chart-1?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fthehiddencostofgangnamstyle

Often giving students a good idea of the size and scope of historical events can be difficult.

The Economist has a lovely graphic today that equates the number of man hours used ("wasted"?) in watching the music video Gangnam Style on YouTube to the man hours required to build various historical structures like Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid, or Burj Khalifa. Hopefully for many, it will put into high relief something from their daily lives in comparison with societies and cultures far distant in time from their own while also exercising some critical reasoning skills.

The Economist usually has some interesting daily charts that can be interesting to take apart and ask additional questions about. For instance on this one, how might man hours translate into direct cost across each of these disparate time periods? What does this say about the freedoms different societies either enjoyed or didn't? What might this indicate about the "next" potential threshold we reach? Are we possibly not getting to it as quickly as we otherwise might because of base entertainment?

On a smaller time scale, what is the equivalent if an individual student gave up something in their life (texting, video games, television) and instead spent it on something else (studying, for example)? How could one calculate the amount of time it takes to get a Ph.D., for example, and convert that into video gaming time? If one then gave up videogaming, how many Ph.D.s could one earn?