Hypothes.is will be a distributed, open-source platform for the collaborative evaluation of information. It will enable sentence-level critique of written words combined with a sophisticated yet easy-to-use model of community peer-review. It will work as an overlay on top of any stable content, including news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, software code and more-without requiring participation of the underlying site.To be honest, I'm a little skeptical. I've seen services that annotate websites and they never seem to catch on (a point that is brought up on the Hypothes.is website).
However, we might be looking at a potential solution for harmful/misleading drug information on the web.
Have you talked to your students about the quality of drug information found on various websites?
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