... not as I do.
As many as six years ago I noted that:
I have a modest collection of bookmarks that is a favorite of mine: a list of academic articles that discuss the wonders of hypertext, yet do so in a fully linear fashion, without even a small link as lip-service. On the whole I find the arguments of these papers quite convincing (as though I was hard to convince), yet because of that their body-language is for me doubly disturbing. If hypertext is such a great thing, why cant' those writing about it use it?
Since then I've continued to collect articles of this sort, but there seem to
be fewer and fewer to collect. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be because the people
writing them are doing so hypertextually rather than in the standard linear fashion.
Instead, hypertext simply no longer seems to be a particularly interesting area
for academic research.
I have no idea whether there's a connection between this decline in academic interest
in hypertext and the retreat of associative linking, but maybe somebody at some
university would like to investigate that.
Go to: Dr. Hierarchy and Mr. Associative