Friends/ Not Only Is The World Not Black&White, It Is Not Just A Carousel of Color [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/writecolorsm-multicoloring-for.htm...] Humans Are MultiModal Creatures With MultiMonet:sts-l@ala.orgdal Minds Here Within I Propose The Development and Implementation of Technology That Would Allow Authors/Readers to Highlight Text With Varying Degree of Texture. TEXTURE Wikipedia: Texture refers to the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch. Using Other/Related Haptic Technology Readers Would be Able To Feel That The Range of Textures Layered Over The Text Within A Corpus. Such Texture Could Be Used to Denote Another Dimension Of The Text OR Denote Relative Importance. [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/writecolorsm-multicoloring-for.htm... ] THINK That This Is FarFetched? Not Really. A Decade Ago I Began to Explore Haptic Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases: The Magic Touch(sm). Your Thoughts On Text~Touch(sm)? Please Post As A Comment On The Posting In The Scholarship 2.0 Blog at [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/texttouchsm-haptic-highlightingrat... ] OR [ http://tinyurl.com/3uznzo ] The Web Is Not Only Semantic - It's Haptic! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]