Newsmashing

Paul Boutin at Slate puts into words an idea that's been visually scratching my brain, and then some. That's not to try and take some backhanded credit for it--he certainly put it out there first. It's just to emphasize the enthusiasm of my, "Yes! Exactly!" reaction. The idea: using visual markup software to comment on news articles the way you'd comment on a term paper, as opposed to the way you'd write one. It takes blogging to whole new level of personal communication. I've been planning on giving iMarkup a spin for a while now, but was waiting until I'd be sure to get the most out of my 30-day trial. I guess I better try it soon.