Comments on: Sni.ps Attribution Tool

By: Sni.ps? « Cosmopoetica

Sni.ps? « Cosmopoetica — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:59:49 +0000

[...] month or so ago Scott Leslie posted about Sni.ps a service for enhancing web clipping and attribution for “serious [...]

By: Sni.ps? at Wash Your Bowl

Sni.ps? at Wash Your Bowl — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:56:50 +0000

[...] month or so ago Scott Leslie posted about Sni.ps a service for enhancing web clipping and attribution for “serious [...]

By: David Gratton

David Gratton — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:53:25 +0000

Hi Neil,

I don’t know of anyone using http://SNI.PS in K-12 yet. It’s only been out a few months. A professor at Emily Carr University is starting to use it. I would be very interested in learning what your experience is like using it?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:10:08 +0000

Neil, you’ll have to excuse me, I’m still trying to calm down, ‘cos here I was thinking NEAL FREAKIN’ STEPHENSON, my favourite author pretty much on the planet, just commented on my blog. I’m sure you get that a lot

I don’t know of anyone in K-12 using it, but the developers are following this thread and so maybe they do.

By: Neil Stephenson

Neil Stephenson — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:52:31 +0000

What a great tool – can’t wait to try it out in my grade 7 classroom. Do you know of anyone using it in K-12?

By: Rob Linton

Rob Linton — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:06:36 +0000

Patrick Murray-John – Sadly WordPress strips out all the bits of code that make RDFa RDFa.

By: Patrick Murray-John

Patrick Murray-John — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:54:15 +0000

This does sound very cool, and with RDFa there should be ways for others to use the data to demonstrate the value via other services that consume the RDFa. It would fit very nicely into Tony Hirst's thinking about graphing conversations. But--hate to say it--I just tried to grab the RDFa with ARC's extractor, and it didn't seem to pick it up (picked up lots of other data though). Can anyone recommend another extractor to try, or point me to other pages that have snipped things to see if ARC does better there? Thanks!

By: Virtually Scholastic

Virtually Scholastic — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:47:16 +0000

Great tool – I look forward to discovering all the ways that it will make my life easier!

You’re right about workflow adaptation – if we don’t make the effort to change, then we might not discover a better way of doing things. On the other hand, effort implies work, and with so much of it already (work, that is), why add more to our plates.

For me, new technology is fun, but for many teachers it’s just simply daunting. I wonder what sort of a take up this tool will have in the ed tech community…

By: Virtually Scholastic » Blog Archive » Snipity snip snip!

Virtually Scholastic » Blog Archive » Snipity snip snip! — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:40:41 +0000

[...] Sni.ps Attribution Tool at EdTechPost The premise is simple enough – the service provides a bookmarklet that, when clicked, creates an overlay of whatever page you were looking at. This overlay allows you to then select content on that page, for which it generates ‘embed code’ to paste on your own site. Doing so will reproduce the content along with an annotated attribution link back to the original source. http://www.edtechpost.ca [...]

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:43:43 +0000

David and Rob – please don’t take my comments as negativity. The functionality of sni.ps is absolutely essential – being able to embed and provide attribution for small bits of text etc… Great stuff! And I love that the embedded/pasted code will degrade gracefully if the sni.ps server is ever unavailable (say, 20 years from now… – something that would have been difficult or impossible if you’d gone the embedded JSON route or something else.

Thanks for putting sni.ps together. I’m looking forward to playing with it more.