The joys of a clean slate.
I shouldn't complain. With a signature file like mine, who am I to criticize people
who might click on any link they stumble across as
they read a web page.
Interestingly, I've discovered that these pages contain a copy of my
old signature file, but that until now, my present file hasn't been here.
So now it is:
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Jay Hurvitz
/ jhurvitz@macam.ac.il / Kibbutz Hatzor
/ 08-8579245
once
again with a presence in cyberspace:
http://web.macam.ac.il/~jhurvitz
though
still trying to figure out why
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One
of the advantages of being disorderly is that
one
is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A.A.
Milne
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There's most definitely something to be said for not knowing where you're about
to end up. The random click that all of a sudden makes us exclaim "how did
I get here?", is, without a doubt, one of the
true pleasures of the web experience.
On the other hand, accomplishing that sense of surprise often requires, on my
part at least, rather hard work. I'm capable of being surprised not because I
click randomly on links, but because I've learned to distinguish between which
links my best bets for something surprising may be hidden. All too often I've
encountered people who seem to achieve that state of grace without exerting any
effort at all.
I've taught classes where I exert quite a bit of effort trying to get my students
to think for a moment about where a particular link might be leading them before
clicking. I'm forever hopeful that with experience and practice they'll see the
inherent worth in reading and perhaps deciphering a URL before clicking (or at
least in asking themselves what might lay beyond a particular link). But all I
get for my efforts are, if I'm lucky, some occasional serendipitous clicking,
and more often than not the generic complain from my students that the page they've
arrived at isn't what they wanted. Too many of my former students seem to belong
to the "click now, don't even think later" web surfing category.
Go to: Dr.
Hierarchy and Mr. Associative