I was on Paul Allison’s TTT last week with Jeremy Dean and Joe Dillon to have a little chinwag about Hypothes.is and its possibilities.

Today the usual suspects turned up at #HypEI (Remi Holden in Colorado with their Education Initiative) and I joined as best I could on the margins. No, really. I showed up to be part of an annotation flash mob. This means you get together with other folks and use Hypothes.is to make notes in the margins of some interesting writings.

So I stuck around the computer tweeting and hypothesi.zing for the heart of my day.  Here was my raw response.

Forty one tweets, five responses

One Storify, 9 views

28 public annotations

13 group annotations

2 replies

One Hackpad

One thank you

One day of my life

I am pretty sure that I did little but generate noise and a general layer of confusion to the mix. I need to exercise better judgment.  I tend to give away my time.  Not sure how smart a strategy that is at this point in my life.  And the truth is that nobody asked me to do it. There was an open invitation to participate, but what did that mean? In my case, participating at arms length, it is hard to be present.  I tried, but most of these one-day conferences are not meant for anyone but local folk.  If you can participate in the margins you should count yourself lucky.  And I do.

Thanks to all who welcomed me and allowed me to share. Discouraging? A bit.  I make a big deal about trying to generate signal instead of noise. Epic fail today.