Aug
CommentPress Is Now digress.it
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I have written many times in this space on CommentPress, which is a theme for the WordPress blogging system that allows for reader comments to be made at the paragraph level.
One of the problems with CommentPress has been that it’s not been upgraded for quite some time.
However, I discovered this week that the person who led the development of CommentPress for the Institute for the Future of the Book, Eddie Tejeda, has just released a completely overhauled version of CommentPress called “digress.it.”
The goal behind the system, as they state it, is “turning a document into a conversation.”
The major advantage of digress.it over CommentPress is flexibility. There are several different “looks” available, and blog owners can add a variety of features to the right-hand sidebar.
I am using it for my American Lit course this semester, which you can check out at http://usapetal.net/wpmu/eh226/. You can also learn more about digress.it at their website.
- Bookmark :
- Digg
- del.icio.us
- Stumbleupon
- Redit it
Thanks for the write up. I’ve release version 2.2, and the plugin has much better support different themes. I’ve tested it on the default WordPress theme and a few others and it seems to work. I plan to make a list of supported themes soon.
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The “digress.it” version has been a very useful tool in a graduate course that I am taking. We used the tool to annotate Cory Doctorow’s “Little Brother”. You can check it out below.
http://w1n5t0n.com
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