There is no page, only pathways

I think that I very instinctively understand, and even want to embrace, this (even if, like most manifesto writers, these web visionaries seem to bend over backwards in order to make the banal seem profound). But even if it has become no more than a pathway, an ephemeral semi-entity that seems to exist only because we've linked to it, or tagged it, web pages remain, for me almost tangible entities. The writing of this particular column is, perhaps, a case in point. Over the past few months (perhaps because of my subject matter, but I can't really be sure) I've found that my "behind-the-scenes" writing, the way I go about preparing for the actual writing of a column, has been changing. I've been, it might be called, blogging to myself - collecting snippets that I want to relate to, to comment upon, and I've been throwing them onto the page somewhat blog like. I even find in myself a desire to stop there, to make a micro-comment without having to integrate that individual thought into a wider context, into what traditionally has become a Boidem column. But I resist that desire. If anybody reads this, I want them to read it with "value-added" - with a perspective that comes not just from rifling through myriad pages and earmarking some with a "that's nice", or a "wow" reaction, but from an honest attempt (regardless of the degree of success) at making some sense, my own sense, out of all that I encounter.