Real hypertext (Catherine Descheneau)

Repurposing doesn't make a hypertext: i.e., to take an existing piece of literature and hypertextualize it. Compare writing for hypertext, e.g. http://evergreenreview.com/evexcite/joyce/index_ns.html
http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/cpace/ht/htlitov.html

Hyper-damage? (Shelley Babich)

The risk of incomplete or false representations of information through hypertext. But how might people be taught to think hypertextually? [1]

But are such anxieties inappropriate, given that we don't assume it possible to fully understand any creative text, or a whole textbook? Are we depending on theories of reading that are archaic?

what's in store? (Mike Maclean)

That current critiques of hypertext are based on out of date technology: current problems will shortly be solved by some developer (e.g., the ebook?) [2]

The forces of pull and push (Myrl Coulter)

Designing a hypertext: sense of "a vortex pulling each one to a vague middle -- a kind of centripetal force drawing inward in search of information, in contrast to the outward excursion to, say the Rutherford Library, which forces us to emerge from our individual centers"

[1] Remember the exercise with Post-It notes we did in the first class?

[2] Technically this may be true, but the question remains whether reading hypertext will be "naturalized" as effectively as reading a book.