Parallel Courses

The Emergent Democracy list has been considering augmenting links [summary], as described at Joi Ito: adding more information to links.

I see two separate problems:

• non-endorsing links
• augmenting a link with information about why it exists, both for consumers and for organization by producers

To solve the first problem, the thread at JI's web suggests using Cory Doctorow's "whuffie" concept.  I had planned a simple -2 to +2 scale attribute called affect.

For the second problem, I don't think the blogging community has caught up with the accumulated wisdom of hypertext research yet.  As for standards, the blogging world has already shown it can make standards.  Some of these efforts, like RSS have produced huge technical time sinks, while others like RSS auto-discovery have provided leverage.

Note, in Mozilla at least, the css attribute selector can be used to style links of different types.  So a[vote="-"] { background-color: red }.
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Link weights

Interconnected.org picks up the link weight idea and proposes it's intergation with haptic gravity wells.
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