And who really cares?

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Somewhat to my surprise, that phrase has only been used once before in the Boidem - I would have expected that I'd have found numerous opportunities to use it (and given in to the urge at least on a few of those). Back then, it was part of an examination of what I then referred to as the uses of links as a representation, perhaps an extension, of self in other web sites. I'm not sure I'd call it that today, though I'm still quite sure that a great deal about us can be learned from an examination of what we link to, and from what we link. A Google search on the term brings up more than 500 hits, though it seems that most of these are concerned with either the technicalities of creating links, or the economics of gettng good placement on a page of search results, and close to none deal with the character of, or behind, those links. And I suppose that that sort of proves a point.

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Go to: Vanilla-flavored linking, or
Go to: The incredible shrinking directory, or
Go to: Dr. Hierarchy and Mr. Associative