while reading through "afternoon" i found myself being brought back to the same pages. i think that i consciously decided to pick words that i would not normally choose in order to try to get somewhere else in the story. did anyone else have this issue? I enjoyed the idea of having a story where you could choose your own path, however there was the issue with having "to do the work" and going round in circles. i think that the text itself just seemed pretty foriegn.

this week we looked at hyper text as a way of reading novels and what not online. These novels would be in the form of " choose your adventure" books with different outcomes for each choice made.

While reading George Landow’s “Hypertext and Critical Theory”, I couldn’t help thinking about my research experience I had last semester while writing the final paper for my freshman seminar. Before starting our research, we dedicated one class period to speaking to a librarian on how to utilize the libraries many resources. When the time came to start researching my paper I spent hours scouring the libraries resources for academic journal articles that pertained to my subject but I was having very little luck.

For my midterm project, I'd like to analyze the structure of wikipedia. Both Nelson and Bush had ideas about software with a structure like that of Wikipedia, and I would examine how Wikipedia both approaches their respective visions, yet is also different from each. Furthermore, I would examine why Wikipedia might be separate from the supposably optimal models that these scientists foresaw. Could Wikipedia be improved along the lines they suggest? Or, is the structure of Wikipedia actually more practical than what they wrote about?

With all of the computer software we have today, in addition to the internet, Nelson probably wonders why we don’t currently use his model of hypertext. Although the internet may seem similar to his hypertext on the surface, he writes that hypertext would be “a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not be presented on paper.” Most informative websites on the internet seem to me to be a way of linking separate pages; they more like the table of contents in a book than a way of representing information in a radically new way.