Nick Carr has again rethought another aspect of technology in his Rough Type blog. This time he takes up arms against hyperlinks or as he refers to them, “textual gnats” and “more violent form of the footnote.”
On this one, I think I’m leaning towards Carr. Hyperlinks can be distractions, a kind of virtual Pez dispenser that rewards us for each click with a possible serendipitous nugget of information. I admit to being in their thrall, but often the rewards of finding a new connection are outweighed by blind alleys and wasted time.
I’ll be experimenting over the new few weeks with putting my links, as Carr suggests, at the end of the post.
And yes, I will be more heavily relying on Zemanta for this experiment. The links for this post can be found after the jump.
Related articles by Zemanta
- Breaking Links (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
- Experiments in delinkification (roughtype.com)
- Why links belong in text (blogs.reuters.com)
- Zemanta, Blogging Assistant (technoverseblog.com)
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