There is a significant push to digitize many writings, books and documents, including entire libraries. This combined with a comic I saw the other day really got me to thinking. The comic (I am sorry I don’t know the artist’s name, but it is a daily joke calendar I got as a gag gift last year) had a machine that purported to highlight the text of books as you waited. Now it seems to me an “easy” thing for someone to place hooks into their digitized works so that it would automatically highlight in several different ways depending on the audience. Indeed, it is easy enough to do in html, you just embed style tags in the document and then switch on/off the relevant styles it seems to me. Google already does highlighting when you search for terms, but this could be much more meaningful. Great thought, but what do I do with it next?
