CommentPress and Writing on a Roll of Towels

Back in 2004, Kathyrn Cramer, a veteran hypertexter, described blogging as “writing on a roll of papers towels” [1], so I’ve been on the lookout for blogging tools that behave more like hypertext.

The Institute for the Future of the Book released CommentPress, a WordPress Theme, that breaks out block-level elements of a blog post into linearly linked nodes. Comments are made on, and displayed with each node.

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For example: McKenzie Wark’s Gamer Theory 2.0 serialized as a weblog, each chapter is a long post, broken down into a stack of nodes, with node-level comments at the side.

There’s another WordPress extension, I think it was done by someone at Yahoo!, that allowed comments at the paragraph level. Anyone remember that one?

Update: It’s Jack Slocum’s work I was thinking of. Thanks to Jeppe Kabell in the comments.

[via O'Reilly Radar]

[1] Cited previously in: From Paper Towels to Hypercard?

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on July 25, 2007 at 9:58 pm and filed under weblogs, writing. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

One Comment

  1. Jeppe Kabell
    Posted July 30, 2007 at 1:25 am | Permalink

    Maybe you’re thinking about the plug-in used at this site? I have tried figuring out which tool/plug-in he’s using, it seems cool, but I haven’t figured out yet.

    I really like CommentPress, btw.

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