Using delicious as a public database only takes transparency so far. That tiny little box for note taking isn’t enough space and it can’t direct me back to the exact line of the blogpost that I was interested in. Despite all of delicious’ benefits for research, its notetaking capabilities have let me down. Here’s where ReframeIt comes in.
If I want my participants to be able to see where my thinking is taking me, I need something that is more directly related to the texts they have written. ReframeIt appears as a sidebar and allows multiple people to annotate the same text. You can highlight the piece of text that you are referring to and make specific comments, or you can make more general comments relating to the page as a whole. And it comes with a simple firefox extension you can get here if you want to give it a try. It’s not nearly as popular as delicious, so in some ways its usefullness will be limited. On the other hand, maybe it will take off soon. After all, The Institute for the Future of the Book is using it in their Golden Notebook Project. And I’ve done a quick test-run here (you have to have a reframeit account to see the comments).
The idea is that as I rebuild my delicious database, stocking it with posts from sustainability bloggers, these bloggers will have a more direct way to see the direction my work is taking and how my thoughts on their writing are unfolding. Now I just need to get them on ReframeIt.
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