It seems that most hypertextual writers accept hyper-organizational styles slowly and learn as they go, expanding their compositions from a single node along a variety of initially disjointed, later increasingly interconnected trajectories, eventually reaching a point where the emerging complexity demands a more deliberate approach to organization. Network-analytical concepts provide a convenient starting point for any author's attempt to recognize, improve upon, and communicate order in a hypertextual system and thereby help readers to navigate the system. Flexibility and complexity attributes help further to conceptualize and understand hypertextual systems, particularly taking the user's vantage point. The Internet has an extremely short attention span and its many users roam restlessly from one end of the Web to the other. Too much choice, it is argued, confuses and encourages superficial and aimless browsing.
Users can miss important information or vital cognitive steps.
The man who values intellectual and artistic freedom over money and fame is writing again, without an editor, a publisher or paper. Anyone who wants to read his work is welcome to it. City Sites is the result of collaborative research by scholars from Europe and the U.S.A and presents a pioneering approach to American urbanism utilising analytical possibilities offered by new multimedia technologies. City Sites is part of the 3Cities research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Board and is based at the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham. This is an electronic book.