“The author takes as his point of departure his studies of Paul Otlet, co-founder of the present International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) and The Union of International Associations, developer of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), theorist of ‘Documentation’, and pioneer of information science. Drawing on these studies his purpose is to examine aspects of the art and scholarship of biography, of the processes of research and imagination that it involves, especially: recognising an appropriate subject and determining an approach to it, the problem of evidence and the frames of reference within which evidence is deployed, the personal involvement that develops between the subject and the biographer, and biography’s final goal of historical and personal understanding.” (W. Boyd Rayward – The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

“The computing world is based on one principal system of conventions — the simulation of hierarchy and the simulation of paper. The article introduces an entirely different system of conventions for data and computing. zzstructure is a generalized representation for all data and a new set of mechanisms for all computing. The article provides a reference description of zzstructure and what we hope to build on it. (…) Simplicity is not cheap, and simple design is very difficult.” (Theodor Holm Nelson – Journal of Digital Information: 5.1)

“This special issue arises out of a panel held during the ACM Hypertext ’03 conference at the University of Nottingham. Panellists were invited to sell their vision as ‘the next big thing’ in hypertext, either to supplement, augment or supplant ‘modern day’ systems, which, let’s face it, is the Web.” (Helen Ashman and Adam Moore – Journal of Digital Information 5.1)

“The main thesis of this paper is that it is desirable to make the creation of Web content an integral and natural part of the daily chores of an intellectual worker, integrated with the normal production and management of data and information, making the Web not just a publishing medium but fundamentally a collector and organizer of personal data and documents.” (Angelo di Iorio and Fabio Vitali – Journal of Digital Information 5.1)

“After taking a computer course at Harvard in 1960, Ted Nelson began a mystical journey. He started exploring the possibility of liberating text from paper, of developing a means whereby writers could harness text in a manner closer to human cognitive patterns: i.e., the way words flowed through our minds. In 1965 Nelson coined the term hypertext. Ultimately, in his brilliant 1974 book, ‘Computer Lib/Dream Machines’, he laid down the foundation for a communications theory transcending text. Hypertext became hypermedia. Imagery and sound played roles equal to text. Nelson realized that personal computers with multimedia capabilities must burst the boundaries of artistically rendering internal reflection.” (Peter Schmideg)

“Building hypertext systems to provide the required functionality to write hypertexts has always been a goal of hypertext research. The parallel development of hypertext research prototypes and the World Wide Web has resulted in repeated attempts to replace the Web or offer world-wide all-purpose services to augment the Web with ‘missing’ functionality.” (Hartmut Obendorf – Journal of Digital Information)

“The sudden emergence and explosive growth since 1994 of the World Wide Web as a graphics-heavy medium is but the latest of several surges that marked the ‘rise of the visual’ in the twentieth century. Each of these waves was enabled by new technology and each changed the world’ practices before it changed its theories. Photo-offset printing unleashed the first wave of photograph in mass distribution newspapers and illustrated magazines.Then the technology for making moving pictures developed into a world-wide industry. Television opened a main pipe line into the homes of the developed world, and video recorders brought films from the theater into the home as well. A typewriters became computers, sprouting monitors and connected to other computers around the world, the flow of visual information and entertainment reaches into the offices of corporations and bureaucracies around the world.” (University of Washington)

“There is something going on called XML. Which some say is HTML done right. I think that is a good description. A wrong thing done to absolute perfection. I have been on the mailing list of the XML linking committee. Which is endeavoring to create some kind of a specification or a standard for  hyper documents that will appropriately represent connected structure. My experience is reading convinces me further, as if I had not known already that I want nothing to do with it. What I am  doing continues in another direction.” (Ted Nelson – Engelbart’s Colloquium: The Unfinished Revolution)

“I’m at the Hypertext 03 conference in Nottingham this week, keeping rough notes online.” (Matt Web – interconnected) – courtesy of ben hyde

The Fourteenth Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: August 26-30, 2003 – Nottingham, UK (ACM SIGWeb)

According to Mark Bernstein: “Colour is inappropriate for links as it conflates emphasis and linking, while blue is a particularly bad choice as it is the hardest colour to read, making the link content less obvious (…)” (Ann Light – Usability News)

“Hypertext as mediated by the Web browser has not proved to embody the qualities of the ideal post-structural text longed for by literary theorists such as George Landow; neither has the World Wide Web fulfilled the document-association function of the memex, the hypothetical research tool Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 essay, As We May Think.” (dichtung-digital – Dennis G. Jerz) – courtesu of webword

“Electronic literature today is hypertextual and more, finding inspiration in visual arts, animation, games and cinema.” (Susana Tosca and Jill Walker – Journal of Digital Information 3.3)

“Hyperfiction is a narrative form that makes use of the characteristics of the Internet to tell a story.” (Carolien van den Bos) – courtesy of hypertextkitchen

“(..) a non-profit project development, training, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives.” (About CDS)

“This paper explores the semantic and rhetorical principles underlying link development and proposes a systematic, comprehensive classification of link types that would be of use to researchers and Web production teams.” (Claire Harrison – FirstMonday 7.10)

“The Bernies award is an encouragement to engineers and scientists to produce hypertexts.” (Mark Bernstein)

“The history of hypertext begins in July of 1945.” (WWW Beyond The Basics – Shahrooz Feizabadi)

Unexpected ramifications of deep linking (NUblog)

“The Weblog Kitchen explores current research in weblogs, wikis, and other hypertext systems.” (Mark Bernstein)