i occasionally came across ideas
that had completely faded from my thinking
one of which
'action hypertext'
i'm happy to resuscitate
the w3c paradigm for the semantic web
is approximately beehive-like
every webpage a hierarchy of containers
to be filled in by worker-drones
presumed to know in advance
exactly what they want to say
and how it fits into the rest of the web/site
but action hypertext is the opposite of this
each author an indeterminate jackson-pollock splatterer
each new webpage starting from scratch
with no clear idea where it's coming from
or where it's going
rather
freeform blocks of text
with freeform styles of separation between them
textblocks accumulating
more or less intentionally
in the course of never-finished web exploration
visits to un/familiar sites
search patterns un/successful
articles read skimmed skipped bookmarked
links saved shared discussed updated
so each of these web-actions
can be seen as an item in an ongoing stream
that should be archived
and re-traceable
and all the usual choices
for dealing with the results of these web-actions:
forget it, shred it
save it, share it, debate it
add it to your to-read list
subscribe to its feed
set a tickler-alarm for it
announce it to the world
link it from related pages of your own
etc etc etc
all these usual choices
should be offered in a standard
dispose-palette
that action-authors habitually consider
when dismissing any action-result
.
