Hypercompendia

Well now that I’ve figured out my little error in jumping in without knowledge but with loads of enthusiasm, I’ve corrected my "Summer Projects" plan easily enough to begin again with the proper form.  In truth, I am a student who learns life by figuring it out step by step on a need-to-know basis. Directions are all well and good, but the lessons that stick are those that have been reasoned out.  Besides, software technology can be an overload of information that is quickly forgotten until used to a purpose. There’s also that old "Mother please! I’d rather do it myself!" syndrome (from the old aspirin commercials I believe?).

What bothers me in the mapview below is what has always bothered me about my hypertext writing experience: the neat little rows and perfectly aligned columns.  I wonder if I truly have the freeflowing form of mind that can depend upon the program to do its job (and more skillfully than I) in organizing threads and a confluence (there–now I’m starting to use this word I must’ve heard a hundred times in the past month!) of ideas.  It may just be my nature of control freak, and I may need to learn to give over that responsibility to the software and let it perform its own magic with my creative input.  We’ll see. I can already imagine the links that will tie these boxes together, as all are involved with hypertext in some form, from reading to writing and developing hypertext (and new media art form) projects.

Anyway, here is the new version (I was never this neat with my blocks as a child):