May 122011
LL40IP: =What are these 6-digit codes before every point & item?:
- LL40KY: IDs to date-stamp & uniquely-reference most anything -that gives some explanation
- LL41TX: my invention, with prototypes starting around 2004.
- LXJX8Q=to be released ASAP for general public use (so anyone can make & include their own IDs)
- LXJXBY=in alpha-test of the 1st release, including
- LXJXH1=(making IDs & outlining nearly-disappear into the background, as humans much prefer it displayed, while still enabling it to be found when-needed by humans & machine-search) is
- LXJY8A=still under regular development (see Could the presentation of this info be improved?)
- LXJY8U=very-difficult or impossible on nearly all Web 2.0 sites due their stripping of formatting by HTML & CSS & JavaScript.
- LXJXOH=This stage will & is taking up to 10 years, due to (my part-time effort on it from no funding) and the inherent difficulty LXJXTT.
- LXJXH1=(making IDs & outlining nearly-disappear into the background, as humans much prefer it displayed, while still enabling it to be found when-needed by humans & machine-search) is
- LL41HJ: useful in numerous situations:
- LL41JR: as in general
- LL41ML: gives an ID to an item which is often fairly-globally unique.
- LL418E: =benefits of always & immediately doing: If placed on an item when it is created/entered whenever an ID might be necessary has notable benefits:
- LL41A5: it time-stamps when the item is created, including soon an ID-to-date converter web page will be offered so one can get, from the ID, the exact time down to the second.
- LL41BC: in the item one say a relative time (as “now” or “2 hours ago”) and still specify exactly –for the time-stamp of the ID gives the exact time being referred to.
- LL4CJJ:it insures all references to the will have the ID embedded so then
- LL4CRA: it creates a uniform & short ID/serial-# for all items.
- LL41D9: A future version will allow one to get, from the ID, the exact user who created it.
- LL41ML: as on text (as and ID on every paragraph, or document, or sentence, or heading, or table or column or row or table-cell)
- LL40ZW: any text which has an ID attached offers several benefits:
- LL41S8: all the general benefits mentioned above, including time-stamping & time-referencing, plus
- LL4131: Instead of having to quote arbitrary spans of text (and then have those quotes go out-of-date if the text changes or one got the quote wrong), one can much more compactly refer to some text by just quoting its ID (and only-optionally quoting the text, which might change anyway), and find it just by searching (as Google-searching or desktop-searching for that ID) and find it even if it’s moved to a new website or even if the text has changed.
- LL42VG:And then by making it easier to reference text, it then
- LL41XT: Helps track & credit authorship plus cut-down on plagiarism (as when the text is copied, the IDs are generally copied as well). The better tracking (of where words came from & went to) then also enables better authorship tracking & crediting.
- LL41XT: Great for any documents which go thru revisions (as wikis, instructions, rules, & increasingly blog-posts) , as references to IDs will still be findable even if the text is moved or rewritten.
- LL45FY: Especially great for any sort of rules & laws & guidelines, including military doc, as every point & subpoint of a rule/law instantly gets ID/code so one can easily write “In (accordance- with|violation of (rule|point) x”.
- LL45L5: Great for manuals & instructions, as each point instantly gets an ID so one can say “See/follow/do step x”.
- LL421W: Good for messages, especially email, as then:
- LL424S: One wanting to refer to a portion of a message need not quote all the text there , just the ID (and optionally the text, but just a little bit).
- LL426S: since messaging is a snapshot of dialog and dialog is where a lot of (indeed possibly most) good ideas & sayings get invented, allows better tracking of where these good sayings & ideas came from (by just referring to the ID) and where they got used to (by the copying of an ID). And again since many/most good things start from dialog, this could lead to significantly better crediting where credit is due (per IDs helping credit & track, explained above). The paragraph’s ID allow one to refer to exactly where that “good saying” or “good idea” or “pearl of wisdom” came from and by whom.
- LL40ZW: any text which has an ID attached offers several benefits:
- LL4C3M: On ID each file & folder and global-function and global-variable, using say the syntax “<name/>_<id/>” where the <name/> may change but <id/> remains constant. This allows these all (files, folders, variables, and functions) to be freely renamed & moved while still being able to restore broken links, sometimes automatically.
- LL4CGT: On each address book contact (as most electronic address books hide the internal ID) to track the contact
- LL4CXY: On each http://eTag.JotHere.com (JotHere’s standard for a email address used for portably categorizing/tagging instead of emailing, often given to each address book contact)
- LL4BXL: On physical items (as a phone or device) as a kind of serial #, including it’s shorter than most serial #s, and being universal, works well with other uses.
- LL4CBJ: Note to make use of IDs, one does NOT need to put an ID on everything (which one may not want to because that takes time & they are unsightly) but note benefits of always & immediately doing.
- LL41JR: as in general
- LL47QH: I and a few other alpha-testers have been heavily using them on most everything in their present form since 2009.01.01 (over 2 years), and in a longer form in the years prior to that.
- LL45S7: So everyone can author with these IDs, The web page & macros I’ve built to generate & insert IDs I plan to release shortly to the general public,
- LL40MC: To explain ones use of them in a document, prefix the document with say:
LL3YGR: What are these 6-digit codes before every paragraph & point? They’re IDs to date-stamp & uniquely-reference most anything –see that link for more details.
- LXJXTT=to build the tools (the software) to generally enable such augmented text is inherently very hard!
- LXJYCD=may appear easy (just insert IDs into text) but is much more complex
- LXJYD7=involves
- LXJYDR=balancing the needs for machine & human parsing & understanding, something only recently being done with microformats.
- LXJYDI=subtle, comprehensive, & integrated modifications of the whole text-processing process: in editing, display, storage, linking, & indexing
- LXJYKG=testing & supporting a variety of existing popular publishing platforms, notably Web 2.0 sites, so to be generally useful.
- LXJYEL=selling humans on a notably different way of writing & composing & authoring.
- MJO3C1: Linking text which is labeled with an ID
- MJO3D8: Does the text have an <a id=”..”> tag?
- MJO3EM: Yes
- MJO3FB: –the typical & ideal case.
- MJO3FG: Use href form “<url/>#<id/>”
- MJO8YY: Real example: http://1.JotHere.com/401#MJO8YY to link to this point.
- MJO3GH: No
- MJO3HS: –as were sites trip out the <a id=”..”> as with user-text on Meetup.com
- MJO3I2: the MJRef solution
- MJO3LR: Usage: http://1.JotHere.com/MJRef?q=”<id/>”(+<keyword/>)*
- MJO88I: MJO89Y: (+<keyword/>)*
- MJO6HU: Originally: http://1.JotHere.com/MJRef?q=<id/>(+<keyword/>)*
- MJO6JO: but now found http://1.JotHere.com/MJHref?q=LTDSHF+Meetup returning quote(Showing results for LTD SF Meetup<br/>Search instead for LTDSHF Meetup); but http://1.JotHere.com/MJHref?q=”LTDSHF”+Meetup works, as used in real example.
- MJO41Q: Pros thru cons:
- MJO3V0: HUGE PRO: will not break even if the text is moved onto another of a different website.
- MJO92O: Very notable PRO: allows click tracking.
- MJO94F: Very notable Pro: could be used to do ad display on every click
- MJO3WV: Notable PRO: Supports multiple copies of the destination text: finds all instances provided only the text is found via public Google Search.
- MJO6TR: Tiny con: should be tested in an Incognito Window to simulate what other will see as Google search guesses what you the author want so will be more accurate
- MJO6W0: Example case: for LTDSHF+Meetup it will guess you mean “LTDSHF”+Meetup
- MJO406: Usually tiny CON: Seems to require ~1 day for newly appearing text (be it copied or moved or created again) to get indexed so found.
- MJO69Q: Small con: often requires including a keyword which won’t change.
- MJO3TK: CON: Initially & currently works just for IDs on the public web.
- MJO62Z: BIG CON: often the most recent version is not obvious & not returned first
- MJO987: Fairly Huge Con: user may find the indirection (1 or 2 additional page displays and time wait for that) very annoying
- MJO98I: Most especially for any link to a target on the same page: now instead of taking ~1/4 sec to scroll the page it now could take maybe ~20 secs for 2 page loads, just to bring him/her back to the same page just in a different spot, and the user will likely be somewhat disoriented as not realizing (and not to easy to quickly tell) that indeed this is the same page.
- MJO62F: HUGE CON: getting to the particular text/tagged-item is tricky as while the search engine usually lists the start of the matching text, the user still needs to know to & copy (into clipboard) the ID then click on the link then page-search for it on that page, which many/most will not know to do.
- MJGPXPL: first implemented by this Pretty-link redirecting to https://www.google.com/search for 1st use at use on http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/events/106978332
- MJO8KY: Pretty-link “Parameter Forwarding Enabled” must be turned on.
- MJO8OU: via https://www.google.com/search
- MJO8T4: searching for the “:” in the target, as “<id/>:”
- MJO3LR: Usage: http://1.JotHere.com/MJRef?q=”<id/>”(+<keyword/>)*
- MJO3EM: Yes
- MJO3D8: Does the text have an <a id=”..”> tag?
- Post history, in order
- MJO383: prior history needs reconstruction
- MJO39P: 1st editing this with WP3.5+ which corrupts & keeps corrupt <a id=”..”>-tags until WP fixes this.
- MJO8XZ: added this history section
- MJO9IB: added Linking text which is labeled with an ID most notably the MJRef solution; pst2013.03.14Thu1537.