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They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. Use digress.it to collectively dissect public documents like political speeches, corporate contracts or government transcripts.

digress.it makes this private space public, allowing communities of readers to turn documents into conversations

Web 2.0 applications don’t generally use a middleware tier to facilitate messaging across users or applications. They use APIs and web-based database access methods to go directly to the source.

it certainly appears that between cloud computing models and Web 2.0 having been forced to solve the shared messaging concept without middleware – and having done so successfully – that middleware as a service is obsolete.

ScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor.

This is a system which publishes Neelie Kroes speeches in commentable format right after they are published. Ideally, people in the audience will be able to comment right after the speech, or at least during the conference.