Archives for August 2004
The Benefit of Not Yet Followed links
There is nothing magic with the hyperlink except that it intensifies the magic of the ordinary paper reference pointer … more
Usability and Translation
This thread of the dotLRN (open-source eLearning platform) forum suggests how much translation is tied to usability: in some cases, translators are needed to make the US original more readable.
Easier Studying
This (German) Guide is supposed to complement a detailed study guide with some tips for using the personal computer as a tool for thinking support …
More on link figuration
This German text from Uni Dortmund contains useful thoughts about link figuration …
Intra-Textual Links
Intra-textual links increase distracting “referential navigation”, and this, in turn, reduces orientation …
Differences between text and hypertext
The HyTex project asked challenging questions: what precisely are the most important differences between text and hypertext? …
Tree-ifying another encyclopaedia
Again experimenting with hierarchical arrangement of index words. This time, I used the hierarchy for prioritizing the hyperlinks …
Encyclopedestrianization
J. Souttar’s great essay shows aspects from philosophy, history, and design, regarding context-less, atomized content …
Indo-Europeans were more Multimedial than we
Looking at word roots, an interesting observation can be made: “multimedial” subject groups are over-represented … more
Funnel language
“The alphabet is a funnel”, says R. Horn - in his visual language, of course.
