Extract
"Weblogs are densely interlinked.
This anchors blogs in the public arena, as part of a communal discourse.
Posts to a blog can be very short and unpretentious.
The threshold for publishing a single post is very low.
This allows single, small, insignificant ideas to be expressed and formulated.
Sometimes these thoughts are left as they are.
A paragraph is enough and there is no more needed.
Other times, the ideas grow.
Someone links their site to the first post, comments on it, and a conversation grows forth.
The initial post, or follow-ups, are linked to a web site or a newspaper article or something else.
Links are like roots, tendrils, reaching out between fragments, creating a context for bits and pieces that at first glance may seem to be unconnected fragments. "

Each link is to an annotated reference. I have not treated the extract as a whole, and as such did not seek to explain it in its entirity. Each page uses the reference as a jumping off point to expand on ideas both within the reference and the extract.

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