Friday, March 5, 2010
Hypertext
I read part of the hyperlink story 'Twelve Blue.' The multiple stories were divided roughly into eight groups, each containing 6-7 paragraph-length stories along with a repeated picture of water, and bar-pieces of a picture of a chalk drawing. I couldn't see the connection between the stories, but I didn't finish reading, either. The links themselves were either part of the texts, or an elliptical (...) at the end. I didn't really like the format (light blue text on dark blue background) because the link seemed to disappear after it was clicked on (it turned dark blue). The stories were interesting, but kind of vague. I never really knew what was going on.
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i had no idea what was hypertext untill i looked up at we tell stories and gave me a little bit of sense about what was hypertext. the 12 blue just doesn't make sense, it's like some sort of blueprints or something. confusing.
ReplyDeleteI thought that Twelve Blue was very interesting, but completely incomprehensible. In the other examples of hypertext, the plot was at least concrete, although it could be changed in some cases according to the preference of the reader. However, Twelve Blue's format required it to be vague in order to make sense, and although it was fascinating, it did not succeed in becoming at least somewhat logical.
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