The Future of Books

Until very recently, writing was linear out of necessity – one page came after another.  Some books, like House of Leaves (a favorite), try to side step this limitation by throwing content at you.  The straight narration is accompanied by footnotes, and two different commentators have comments ranging from sentences to page’s long in the [...]

Hyperlink or Kill a Tree

It’s the way of the web

If you are writing online, and you are not using links, you might as well be writing on paper.  Many people prefer reading on paper anyway.  The point of the internet is that you can point people to other related places to learn or see more.  Keep your writing [...]