Hypertext is a multilinear shapeshifter. It expands. It deepens. It interconnects. Is it untapped in potential? Maybe. Is it critical for information technology? Of course.

Focusing on the structure of hypertext, Landow feverishly breaks down the structure of hypertextual links and the possibilities it serves. Narrowing down the expanding passage of information, three useful questions spring forth when reconfiguring information and it’s interpretation. These include:

1.) Where does the reader enter the text?

2.) Where does the reader leave the text?

3.) Where are the borders of the text?

By reconfiguring the text, Landow not only justifies his ideas, but shows support material through a number of links and supporting writers. From reading the introduction and second page I will honestly say I challenged these questions; choosing not read the pages crossed in red or every line in the exert. While this will make any typical university tutor or lecturer would cringe, Landow serves up diagrams that express these concepts of borderless text and the unity attained in blogs on the web.

My role as a produser allows me to assume this authorial role, moving past traditional ideas of readership as I follow unlimited links, not limited book pages. But it’s hard to imagine the reader when the links and information you can produce and find through hypertext is philosophically unlimited, right? There is a strong level of simultaneity and insanity, especially as hypertext involves a growing amount of hypermedia. These elements are really only the beginning to incorporating open text and changing the experience of textual linearity. It just goes on.