October 31st, 2008

Three versions of the American Declaration of Independence

As the screenshot suggests, three versions of the American Declaration of Independence are fascinating to read this way, without the hypertext clicking about of the place we got them from. We dropped Jefferson’s alpha into TextFlow as an “original Word document” that he really wrote with a feather, and then the committee beta and the 1.0 Congress release for comparison — although their writers weren’t signed up with TextFlow. As a user, you can compare and work with your collaborators’ writing even if they haven’t heard of it.

JeffersonDraft.doc
CommitteeDraft.doc
FinalDeclaration.doc

Posted by Tomer

  1. eoolk
    November 1st, 2008

    fantastic….

  2. sture
    November 3rd, 2008

    You suggest and may I say show that software can add to the democratic process. This is very intriguing!
    St

  3. Anne geddes
    November 17th, 2008

    I compared this with using the hypertext clicking version. What a difference! This is wonderfully clear.

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