A few years back, I abandoned the notion of normal linear writing. I stopped trying to make sense, and began focusing on creating a multi-sensory perceptual experience. The internet is ideally suited to this kind of experimentation as you have quick and easy access to remixable reference points which you can use and reuse to convey meanings and associations and establish a psychological “sense of place” for your audience.
Through those experiments in combining and re-broadcasting massive sets of data as an “author” (perceiving center) I came to long for software tools which would make the process easier. One thing I began envisioning was a web-browser which worked laterally across chunklets of information. You’d have your regular browser options like right now, but then have the ability to circle a section of data, zoom in on it and navigate right from that sub-component directly to contextless information culled from other sources which matches or somehow elucidates further the selected data. Associative search. And then you’d have on top of that the ability to capture and transmit story-streams out of your browsing experience. A narrative history - controlled entirely by the user, whose rights are sacrosanct - which can be exported in any number of formats: video, picture streams, audio-files automatically sorted and collected, text descriptions of media reference points splayed out like a GPX stream through physical space.
This style of browsing essentially eliminates the need to actually go and visit a web-page on this or that domain. (though original sources can still be accessed as archival artifacts complete unto themselves) All the little bits and pieces are immediately culled and available without having to “go” anywhere. You get the gist of information this way. You feel the flow. You surf the web without getting covered with seaweed.






