What make the hypertext exciting are the freedom and the limitation that comes along with it. On the website you immediately interact with what is already there, and the additions that may pop up as you are watching. You are an author on equal terms with everybody else and you have to face both the endless possibilities there lays ahead, just as you have to acknowledge that what you created can be gone in just a few moments. The choices are endless: you can take on a humorous or ridiculing approach where you produce laughable sequences or funny expressions, or the serious approach where you seek to produce something that makes meaning.
This type of text is so very different from what we have encountered in the course so far, in the way it is not bound to any one single person; it is a great open online community that is established through the making of the constantly evolving text, in which we are all players – none more important than the other.
By Sanne and Maria
I agree with you that opening.sources has all of those possibilities, however utopian they sound. It is also important to note that all of those possibilities are of limited duration as new writers erase parts of the poem all the time...
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