I have written on the web as hypertext, including what a blog is and isn’t ( e.g. TiddlyWiki ). When checking this post from Moleskine Modality, make sure to go to Eli Springer’s home page, then open up links in it to see how the new information is added to the original home page text. Stage I: open link Eli Springer in the home page then in that page, as an example, the link ‘moral change’ to show how all three sets of text are available on the same page. Note in each new text box, in the top right-hand corner, there is a choice to close the box down. It is possible to open every link in the home page, and every link in (for simplicity) the Eli Springer page.

Here, in the Carr, is the argument that something radical is happening to both reading and writing, in the suggestion there might be some sort of cognitive change going on. This, from the background of writing being something we learn as opposed to spoken language which we are essentially born with the ability to use.

Before the web, hypertext theory abounded. It might be instructive to examine some of the web-based hypertext ideas (The Electronic Labyrinth) to see how they fit into the unending debate about the effect of surfing on reading and writing habits”

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June 19, 2008