Hypertext

I really enjoyed looking through the various kinds of hypertext. I found it interesting that text could be manipulated using various areas of technology. Though I skimmed through most of the sources out of curiosity, I have to say that the two which I focused on were the fairytales and the blog of Bernice Bobs her Hair. While I did enjoy the fairy-tales, I did not enjoy that the amount of control which the reader could exert over the story was so limited. It seemed like it was trying to mimic the feel of choose-your-own-adventure books, but the choices it gave were very limited. I also did not enjoy the fact that there was no happy ending available for the character. While I (admittedly) did not read every word of the Bernice blog, I did enjoy the uniqueness of it. I liked the fact that it was set up in such a realistic fashion, with her friends added to the blog as if they were "following" her as she wrote.