... it's hard to lecture in hypertext.
The vast majority of the material I use in my Copy/Paste presentation
is sound files - musical examples of how an "original" source gets used
in a piece of music, ultimately leading to something that others might
find derivative, but to my mind is distinctly new. Numerous times I've
tried to figure out how to make this material available in a hypertextual
framework that, instead of progressing in a linear fashion predetermined
by me and organized in such a way that I can interject my comments into
the examples, allows the reader to concentrate on what he or she chooses.
But I find that no matter how hypertextual I consider myself, with the
particular materials I deal with in the lecture in question, I find that
I want to hold the reins and determine the pace.
And that's not the technical problem, which is that the sound files
take up about 50MB of disk space, and I doubt that uploading all of those
examples onto the university server is going to find favor in the eyes
of the computation center.