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“The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men, tossing on their beds, Rhymed out in love’s despair To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear. They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end; Wear out the carpet with their shoes Earning respect; have no strange friend; If they have sinned nobody knows. Lord, what would they say Should their Catullus walk that way?”

Writing Age Poetry Perfection Criticism Critics Frustration Creative Process Inferiority Love Poetry Erudition Scholars Annotation

Book:The Wild Swans at Coole

Source: The Wild Swans at Coole

“Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.”

Thinking Way Connected Eras Collectives Application Software Users Site Entering Bleeding Amazon Harness Wikipedia Flickr Collective Intelligence Annotation Bleeding Out

Author:Tim O'Reilly

“The economics of television syndication and DVD sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched multiple times, revealing new nuances and shadings on the third viewing. Meanwhile, the Web has created a forum for annotation and commentary that allows more complicated shows to prosper, thanks to the fan sites where each episode of shows like 'Lost' or 'Alias' is dissected with an intensity usually reserved for Talmud scholars.”

“You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what's going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.”

Ifs Knows Needs Left Know How Knowing Luck Newspapers Good Luck Mislead Caption Annotation

Author:Ben Katchor

“I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.”

Wells Kind Book Use Lovers Mark Faults Stores Handle Copies Chests Thumbs Margins Neat Annotation

Book:Collected Works of Erasmus: The correspondence of Erasmus

Source: Collected Works of Erasmus: The correspondence of Erasmus

“To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board.”

Made Age Found Games Mistake Player Surprise Chess Newspapers Magazines Analysis Boards Columns Annotation

Book:How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.”

I Can Two Stories Problem Jobs Turns Reading Lost Horror Labels Loud Girlfriend Hanging Out Ingredients Toxic Topics Wrong Time Horror Stories Annotation

Book:Zodiac

Source: Zodiac

“I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.”

Long Said Reality Cities Long Time Instant Feedback Long Time Ago Twitter And Facebook Foursquare Annotation

Author:Jack Dorsey