The neatest part of a web piece that gets relatively widespread notice is the reconnecting that results.
I don’t much like the concept of blogrolling or exchanging links. There’ something about it that seems a little cheap, a bit less than honest, and a tad sleazy. I send heads-up emails to other writers when I publish something that I think they’ll find interesting, but I never ask for or offer to exchange links. So this is going to read like blogrolling, but it’s not. I link for two reasons: it either clarifies, illustrates, or develops my topic or it interests me.
Mark Bernstein knows more about hypertext than just about anyone other than Ted Nelson, and his work has always interested me. What’s better is that he’s a programmer and understands what kind of tools writers need to hone their craft. Probably because he’s a pretty dang good writer his own self.
Bernstein’s company, Eastgate Systems, makes the Storyspace hypertext tool for writers and publishes hypertext works—serious hypertext, not the crap we’re doing here. Eastgate’s next effort is code-named Ceres, a hypertext note-taking and weblog environment Bernstein describes as “Agenda meets Storyspace meets Blogger, with a few plot twists along the way.” If you’re serious about non-linear media, check it out.
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