Will Richardson of weblogg-ed has an interesting post on hypertext inspired by Jay David Bolter’s book Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext and the Remediation of Print (another one for my must-read list.) Sample quote:
“Publishing is fundamentally serious and permanent; a scholar or scientist cannot even retract his own previously published argument without embarrassment. A dialogue, on the other hand, speaks with more than one voice and therefore shares or postpones responsibility. A hypertextual essay in the computer could in fact be fashioned as a dialogue between the writer and her readers, and the reader could be asked to share the responsibility for the outcome.”
Our knowledge2go book will obviously in part be another sort of introduction to the world of hypertextual knowledge making, but as importantly we will have to find ways for our readers to talk back at the text and with one another. [pic by Christophe Grébert]
