I agree with Hoffman on this point
rather than with Jakob Nielsen, who promotes short web pages.
Short pages make your finger sore from clicking,
and take far longer to read.
Lists of links, it could be argued, are pretty pointless,
since they represent only one person's idiosyncratic way of structuring the world.
For anyone else, you'd be better off just starting afresh with
Google.
But I make mine public anyway, partly so I can access them myself from abroad.
The only thing that might make them useful to people other than me
is that I do a lot of annotation of the lists.
I weave them into a narrative,
or organise them into a structure.
I freely edit their titles.
I don't know how anyone expects a hotlist-type bland list of links with their original titles intact
to be useful.
Creative linking
I try to creatively hyper-link.
Why write JavaScript when you could write
JavaScript.
Why write Sartre when you could write
Sartre.
Why write Al-Qaida when you could write
Al-Qaida.
Why write Edward I when you could write
Edward I.
Why write Ulysses when you could write
Ulysses.
I try to bring you hard-to-find stuff and weave it into my pages.
I try to make my pages part of the global conversation.
snap.com
- Interesting idea about showing pop-up previews of web pages
as you hover over a link.
The Internet
is as close as we have ever come to the Enlightenment dream of
freedom of the press for everybody.
With WAP, I used to worry that the mobile Internet could develop into
a restricted community like
books, newspapers, radio, TV and cinema,
with mobile users only accessing data from media
"content providers".
I'm not worried about this any more. Anyone who sells such a restricted Internet access
will simply be beaten
in the marketplace by anyone offering full Internet access.
Google
translates HTML to WML on the fly,
so WAP users can view the Web after all.
In a crippled, sort of pre-1993, way.
"Anyone who slaps a 'This page is best viewed with Browser X'
label on a Web page appears to
be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a
document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."
- Tim Berners-Lee
