{"id":326,"date":"2009-06-22T17:49:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/hypertext-is-king-of-substace\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T02:40:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T07:40:28","slug":"hypertext-is-king-of-substace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/hypertext-is-king-of-substace\/","title":{"rendered":"(Hyper)Text is King of Substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u2026I\u2019d rather have the text of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html\">Clay\u2019s speech<\/a> than the video. <strong>For things that matter, written words are unambiguously better<\/strong> than speech. To start with, anything that matters isn\u2019t just written, it\u2019s usually rewritten repeatedly (and more important, <strong>condensed<\/strong>). Plus, <strong>it has hyperlinks<\/strong>. Plus, it\u2019s smaller and cheaper to ship around. Plus, it\u2019s searchable. Plus, it works on more devices. (I acknowledge that only the first of these is fundamental; but that alone would be enough).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2009\/06\/17\/The-Internet-Payload\">Tim Bray<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Videos, speech, etc. will always carry more emotional content. But <strong>for consuming ideas, text offers the highest bandwidth and most precision<\/strong>. Unfortunately, writing well takes time, and <a href=\"http:\/\/dubroy.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/26\/blogging-is-the-hardest-conversation-ive-ever-had\/\">can hinder <em>conversation<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Conceptually, I believe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FEdward-R.-Tufte%2FB000APET3Y%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dep%255Fsprkl%255Fat%255FB000APET3Y&#038;tag=vincgabl-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\">illustrative pictures and infographics <\/a> are valid elements of modern text, like <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/214\/\">links<\/a>, or <code>typography<\/code>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026I\u2019d rather have the text of Clay\u2019s speech than the video. For things that matter, written words are unambiguously better than speech. To start with, anything that matters isn\u2019t just written, it\u2019s usually rewritten repeatedly (and more important, condensed). Plus, it has hyperlinks. Plus, it\u2019s smaller and cheaper to ship around. Plus, it\u2019s searchable. Plus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,24,8],"tags":[287,219,296,81,237,441],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-design","category-quotes","category-usability","tag-communication","tag-education","tag-interface","tag-internet","tag-text","tag-tim-bray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}