From http://hypothes.is/ I'm okay with this. I think it's a reasonable thing to desire. More information that is better. Good. Their site doesn't mention (as far asI have found) anything about this reputation/ID/true identity thing. It focuses mainly on elaboration on the above statement. From http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-internet-peer-reviewed
There is also a picture: http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/hypothes.is_.png Again, I think this is a cool idea. If I understand correctly, it would be like comments - annotations, fact checking, etc - through a browser extension. Ignoring the reputation thing, because there really isn't much information out there other than original article posted, it's a incredibly ambitious idea that may or may work and will most likely end up being a circle jerk of pseudo intellectuals. Can you imagine what Christian blogs will look like? Or atheist blogs? Or political blogs? Some things can be fact checked but a majority of what happens on the internet is purely opinion. Sometimes it's opinion backed up by facts, sometimes it's just a 12 year old spewing bullshit because he can. It'll be interesting to see how it goes but I'm not holding my breath for a new internet.If wherever we encountered new information, sentence by sentence, frame by frame, we could easily know the best thinking on it.
If we had confidence that this represented the combined wisdom of the most informed people--not as anointed by editors, but as weighed over time by our peers, objectively, statistically and transparently.
If this created a powerful incentive for people to ensure that their works met a higher standard, and made it perceptibly harder to spread information that didn't meet that standard.
These goals are possible with today's technologies.
They are the objectives of Hypothes.is.
That’s the idea behind Hypothes.is. It will work as an overlay on top of any stable content, including news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, software code and more — without requiring participation of the underlying site.
