[IxDA Discuss] Is social tagging a success?

[Christian Crumlish]

> Later, in grad school, my dissertation advisor had a wild 
> theory, that each and every word should be hyperlinked in a 
> text. Sure, that's nutty, from a focused IxD usability 
> standpoint, but we were working with Vannevar Bush's ideas 
> from 1945, of the Memex machine. 

I still think this is a good idea. There could even be overlapping links
from phrases with pick lists to choose the destination.

I asked the maker of VoodooPad to make it possible for every word to be
a link automatically. He told me it wasn't a good idea. But I'm the
user! It's a feature request. Not everyone would have to use that
mode....

Christian Crumlish
Extractable etc.