Category Archives: About Links

Much has improved on bikeway signposts. Finally, the mainly work as expected in a network. But it is interesting to observe that a network is not necessarily perceived a network from the beginning.
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In his inspiring article on “The Joys of Shallow Thinking…”, G. Siemens notes the insecurity of education about how deep or shallow learning should be. I do think that deep learning of a topic is necessary, but not in its own right but as a sample or representative for the similar topics that, later on, can be touched more shallowly.
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According to the “information foraging theory” quoted by Infovis, we are hunter-gatherers for information prey….
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There is nothing magic with the hyperlink except that it intensifies the magic of the ordinary paper reference pointer …
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This German text from Uni Dortmund contains useful thoughts about link figuration …
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Intra-textual links increase distracting “referential navigation”, and this, in turn, reduces orientation …
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