Hyper-words, to me, are a form of media convergence. Although it is completely on the web, you are taking a world and linking it to other forms of the web. If you take a name and get the wikipedia page for that person, than you are linking two different pages. Media convergence is going on all around, not just just in the obvious forms.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Hyperlinks or Hyperwords?
Our conversation about Wikipedia in class got me thinking about the web in a more interconnected way. Wikipedia has successfully created its own web platform. By this I mean that through their complex systems of hyperlinks, they embody the web, or how the web used to be. In the Wired article, one of the first paragraphs quoted Vannevar Bush's idea that hyper-linked pages really outline the core ideas and values of the web. But what I am getting at is that hyperlinks are not all that prevalent. Instead, hyper-words are the new way to view the web.
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Although lots of Wikipedia information could be wrong I do find myself from time to time getting lost just clicking from hyperword to hyperword, in a good way... it is a great way to brush up on some of the many topics there are out there in the world.
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