(Joe’s full article is here.)
Yes, here we are again—I think what you’re saying is that even a single-line annotation of a link, even just a few words of human curation do wonders when you’re out discovering the world. (Perhaps even more than book recommendations—where we know that at leas...
Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia
it made me feel like we were trying to send some kind of concentrated transmission to the author—linking as a greeting, links as an invitation.  ❧
I love the idea of this.
December 19, 2018 at 04:14PM
I do find that Webmentions are really enhancing linking—by offering a type of bidirectional hyperlink. I think if they could see widespread use, we’d see a Renaissance of blogging on the Web.  ❧
December 19, 2018 at 04:17PM
I’m really not sure if linking, in general, has changed over the years. I’ve been doing it the same since day one. But that’s just me.  ❧
Only in the last hour I’ve had a thought about a subtle change to one of the ways I link. It’s not a drastic thing, but it is a subtle change to common practices. Also as I think about it, it removes some of the obviousness of links on social platforms like Twitter that add the ugly @ to a username in addition to other visual changes when one mentions someone else.
December 19, 2018 at 04:22PM
Yeah, received those. Just hadn’t found time to catch up on reading and moderate
here.
This makes sense. I want to expand further on the purpose of certain kinds of
linking—partially in response to Chris Aldrich’s
addition
to our conversation. Hopefully I’ll make time this weekend.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions in detail. It’s been a
great help to me to watch you work. Your sites are looking and functioning
well—and the links you are passing out are of exceptional quality.