{"id":202,"date":"2008-03-08T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=202"},"modified":"2009-02-15T14:54:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T19:54:26","slug":"hypertext-hypertextopia-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/03\/hypertext-hypertextopia-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"HYPERTEXT; Hypertextopia &#8211; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span> lot of changes have taken place on the <a href=\"http:\/\/hypertextopia.com\">Hypertextopia<\/a> site since I started writing a story into it about a week and a half ago.&nbsp; This morning, I found another tab on the top of the main writing space page and found this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; This story is not available for your friends to collaborate on.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; Adding a password will allow them to write in it as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This, I believe, came out of a suggestion in the commentary at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/hypertextopia.html#comments\">if:books<\/a> which posted and hosted a lively discussion on hypertext and it&#8217;s rather small audience (to put it politely).&nbsp; Some even prayed it would never resurface.&nbsp; That part particularly bugs me; I dislike the color orange but certainly would never wish it banned or eradicated because there are some people who love it.&nbsp; I just never wear orange or drink orange soda.&nbsp; My favorite color is green.&nbsp; I wear it a lot and eat limes.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the thread here: I&#8217;m not really sure what is accomplished by adding collaborators to a piece, though I would suppose that if a piece were to be at its best by using several writers, then you can do it in hypertext as well as any other medium.&nbsp; To me it just comes off as a case of misunderstanding the theory of hypertext and making new writers of a piece out of readers albeit by offering the reading of different paths written by a single writer.<\/p>\n<p>Such fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span> lot of changes have taken place on the Hypertextopia site since I started writing a story into it about a week and a half ago.&nbsp; This morning, I found another tab on the top of the main writing space page and found this: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This story is not available for your friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext","tag-hypertextopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}