Ghost in the Wire

Here's a proposal: I want to use 37Signal's Writeboard in an effort at writing something collaborative, and to do so for two reasons. First, because I believe it will produce something novel, interesting, and of high quality; and second, because I'm curious about the experience and sense of authorship that such an endeavor might engender.

The topic for the experiment: "Delimiting Links." I'm interested in trying to understand the concept of a "link," either through definition or phenomenological investigation or even something akin to deconstruction. I'm thinking specifically about hypertext links, but I imagine it may be impossible to discuss them without some allusion to other links, or at least an explanation as to how they earned their moniker. So I will start with a basic paragraph outlining some of the problems regarding adequately conceptualizing links, but if you believe there are texts that should be engaged, arguments that need to be made, basic sentence structures or word choices that need to be changed, feel free.

Now here's how it works. I've set up the Writeboard already, and if you want to contribute or even monitor this little experiment, just comment with your email address or send me an email and I will have the service send you an invite. Hopefully this will prove an interesting and rewarding endeavor.