The bad news is, printing all of this week’s reading used an entire cartridge of black ink because the photocopying was a little bit skew-wiff (is that a word?).

The good news is, I took a lot from it and I think I finally understand Hypertext (read: Look at my awesome photo post of Winnie the Pooh and Friends create your own adventure storybook as my first point of being exposed to Hypertext) 🙂

Here I will list a few key-points which clarified my understanding and light-bulb moments I had while reading this text:

1. In the future all texts will eventually electronically link to each other, creating metatexts and metametatexts.

2. Example of Hypertext: CD Word: The Interactive Bible Library (read: me immediately thinking of the Walt Disney create your own adventure books I read as a child)

3. We are writing in the presence of other texts.

4. Hypertext Essay- Networked Documents.

5. Readers can choose where they want to go next (see Winnie the Pooh again) i.e. they can keep reading in a linear mode, they can investigate one point further, they can go in a completely different direction, informed by their own opinions and interests.

6. Reading a blog is Hypertextual. 2 forms of Hyperyextuality: 1) Bloggers can link chronologically distant entries to each other 2) By a reader wanting to insert a comment they are diverted from the text.

7. Advantage of blogs rather than emails- no spam.

8. Feed Readers/ Subscribers (Lecturers and Tutors in Networked Media via Feedly etc.)

9. Facebook is kinda like blogging

10. Blogging is like a web diary

11. Can blur the distinction between real and fiction, private and public

10. Many of our activities are Hyper-textual. Even me stopping to look up a word in the dictionary while I’m reading this reading is hypertextual

11. Hypertext blurs the boundaries of the borders, metatext, start and ending of texts.