Excitebike! 12.22.06
I head home to D.C. for Christmas tonight, and I’m hoping, somewhat, that I don’t get the urge to post to FC on my vacation. We’ll see how that goes.
Meanwhile!
For readers
The Institute for the Future of the Book just released a robustly commentable version of the Iraq Study Group Report. Come for the report; stay for the brilliant commenting system, which I’m sure they hope will catch on for other long-form writing online. Basically it lets you comment on individual paragraphs. They’re still writing the code to allow user to more easily find and read new comments, but it’s a heck of a start. Imagine using something similar to workshop a fiction piece electronically.
For writers
Stumped for information on a topic you’re writing about? Need a new avenue to explore? Try Google Scholar. Not only does it index and link to full-text research papers on anything you might be writing about, it also links out to related research via keywords—so there’s always inspiration for what to investigate next.
