During my MA, a friend of mine Detlev Fischer (ooh I just Google’d him), created a stunning HyperText system. Imagine this… instead of hotlinks that took you somewhere, it had hotlinks that «expanded» extra content into the text… infinitely. It’s quite hard to describe but with was very simple to understand and use. You could even select any word or sentence and add more content yourself…
And the thing was, was that as a reader, which hyperlinks you expanded (in place) completely altered the reading experience. In short, his idea simple, engaging, unique and brilliant… and the concept of it has stuck with me for (blimey!) over 16 years…
Maybe one of the reasons Detlev’s work struck a chord with me is that I am someone who is always battling with convoluted sentence structures in my head. On this blog, often my posts have lisp-like structure with dizzying depths of parenthesis (I’m avoiding the urge to do it now (badly)). Part of my fondness for meandering structures is that I believe that there’s creativity in weaving a complex web. Deep down I know that if I was knitting a jumper of persuation, it’d look crap and fall to pieces under its own multi-coloured lack of direction.
It doesn’t matter if (at times) my thinking is a bit woolly, I’m not running for an office where I can do lot of damage by not being able to think (or speak) clearly…
The sentences of Sarah Palin, diagrammed. – By Kitty Burns Florey – Slate Magazine
p.s Don’t assume I’m interested in the US election just because of the Sarah Palin reference.
