The construction of self in personal web pages is a fascinating concept, yet few people who seem to have attempted to undertake an examination of that issue have devoted much thought to how people use links as a central component of the self being constructed. The Boidem has slowly evolved a style of linking that, to me at least, points in one possible direction. Perhaps it might be called controlled eclecticism. To many readers a link is a link is a link, and if it's blue and underlined, that's enough for them. But if that's the case it becomes extremely difficult to offer a particular and consistent style of linking, of using hypertext, as something distinct from other links, a style that has developed out of both an examination of what already exists and experimentation with what might. A bit of comparison is thus called for in order to develop a better focus. Thus, these sites are offered as part of the review of the relevant literature, at least as important as the theoretical aspects that usually receive attention in such a review.

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