Institute of Semantic Restructuring

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Semantic Restructuring is the pursuit of enlightenment, enlivenment, empowerment through the creative re-arranging of the building blocks of meaning. For a better description, Start Here.


2004:13:07

979 - Web Creates Informavores

By making a clear, actionable distinction between text that does something and text that doesn't we are simply, directly conditioning readers to scan. It is unavoidable. Well, no, it could have been avoided by disallowing in-line linkage, forcing folks to link at the end of a document, abstracting links away from content. But by conflating hyper-text with non-hyper-text we have created a simple, clear conditioning scenario: scanning rewards. (Nice syntactic ambiguity, that.)

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Chris L wrote


Then links would work as well as endnotes. Feh.

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