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Paragraph Addressable
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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last edited by BillSeitz on Aug 10, 2008 3:57 am

Many systems include a way of inserting paragraph-level [ANAMEs] into documents (and archives of , etc.).

The talks about this a lot. See .

's [Quick Doc Review] system does this, both for and documents (which it renders to ). It posts a document with [ANAMEs] inserted, and lets each paragraph spawn a thread.

has done something similar, making a feature in . His [Thinking In Python] book draft is delivered in static , but with an "Add a Comment" link at the end of each paragraph, which calls the feature on his site, passing a paragraph [ID].

I wonder whether it makes sense to think of this in terms of ?

A big semantic question is whether paragraphs are the right level of granularity. As has pointed out, sometimes a paragraph contains multiple concepts/ideas. Maybe we need to teach people to do more ( as final format)?

Making paragraph-addressable is a challenge, because nodes are intended not to be static. One could try and do it anyway, any maybe tie into a complicated way of walking back through diffs. Or one could argue that it isn't necessary because you can edit wiki nodes directly and insert comments right where they are applicable. But this has it's own huge tracking problems...

The crowd inserts into archives. But the problem is that these only appear in the archives, not in the distributed messages. So they are rarely referred to in the process of the discussion. I think one needs greater integration between the listserve host and the web-archive generator, so that a message:

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