July 14, 2003
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Eggs?

Kathryn Cramer discusses the hypertextual issues that underpin blogrolls.

I won't go into my principles of hypertextual aesthetics right now, since what I'm on about now is blogrolling and I have to pack for Readercon, otherwise I will have no clothes when I get there, but the main principles are more links are better, the best nodes are ornamented like easter eggs and I hate the encyclopedic linking style . On this last point, I've really lost the war, so most of the time I don't even try for the kind of surprising linking strategies that I most admire, since they are hard work and if done badly would really annoy people.

I'm not sure I understand the easter eggs.