Spot. On.
The great thing about the web is linking. I don’t care how ugly it looks and how pretty your app is, if I can’t link in and out of your world, it’s not even close to a replacement for the web. It would be as silly as saying that you don’t need oceans because you have a bathtub.
Turning text into hypertext. Pivot on people, places and things mentioned in books. I really, really like this.
A timely reminder from Jason of the killer feature of the web: hyperlinks.
A wonderful document outlining the earliest history of the tags we know and love today.
A fascinating look at hypertext in illuminated manuscripts.
A wonderful experiment in expanding hypertext.
An in-depth study mapping all the permutations in "choose your own adventure" books.
A classic essay from Clay Shirky on the dumb nature of the web.
Blaine is doing his bit to battle the great linkrot apocalypse with an archive of short urls and their corresponding endpoints.
Chris Shiflett gets behind the rev="canonical" movement. This thing is really gaining momentum.
rev="canonical" has a posse.
This is the ur-spring: Tim Berners Lee's original proposal for "Mesh", later "World Wide Web."
A greasemonkey-driven hypertext game: get from a starting Wikipedia page to your target solely by following links in the articles.
This talk that James gave in Bristol last week is chock full of great stuff. Well worth a read/look.
Ooh, look what else I've found on the Reboot site.: this is my pecha kucha... I mean, this is my "micropresentation" about increasing the power of your hyperlinks (with microformats ...of course).
Dan Hon's very extensive notes from Alex Wright's great talk at South by Southwest, The Web That Wasn't.
Excellent research into how screen readers respond to empty links (i.e. A elements with no text between the opening and closing tags).
An excellent overarching article looking at the current state of microformats adoption.
A wonderful hypertextual essay in praise of Elsa's excellent photography.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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