Thanks for the comment, Mario, and I appreciate your concerns. I was a 
fishing a little as I saw Jon Udell is working there now -- for folk of a 
certain age he gives the project a degree of credibility. As per his blog 
comments, I was thinking primarily of use with a class of students.

http://blog.jonudell.net/2015/03/22/annotating-the-web-my-new-job/

On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 10:17:44 AM UTC, PMario wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> The idea is interesting and the organisation behind hypothesis seems to be 
> interesting too.
> The vision video is great, but imo the implementation has some flaws atm.  
>
> I have 3 major issues: 
>
> 1) There is no official API to communicate with the service. .. At least I 
> couldn't find one. ... TiddlyWiki is not a web page, it's an application. 
> So TW needs to be in control of its content. ...
>
> 2)  To get the annotation working you need to call your own web page using 
> theirs eg: https://via.hypothes.is/h/http://tiddlywiki.com/
> So I pay for a nice domain name, just to get it hijacked. For my taste 
> this behaviour is very aggressive. 
>
> 3) IMO the TiddlyWiki workflow contradicts the annotations value. 
> TiddlyWiki is highly dynamic. For me tiddlers only make sense, if they are 
> refactored (according to feedback)
> If the tiddler content changes enough, imo the annotation linking 
> mechanism doesn't work anymore. 
>
> Having a look at there roadmap <https://hypothes.is/roadmap/> it seems 
> they see this problem. See: "Archive annotated pages, recover orphans 
> <https://github.com/hypothesis/vision/issues/76>" ... 
> They want to store the old version of a page ... Which is fine in the 
> first view. ... 
>  - But what if the original content isn't licensed that way?
>  - What if the author of the original content doesn't want this behaviour?
>
> I really like the idea, to play nice with them but I have some concerns. 
> just my 2 cents.
>
> have fun!
> mario
>

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