Links on delinkification

The airing of the idea of delinkification did not, you'll be relieved to know, set off a catastrophic implosion of the World Wide Web. It did, however, set a few minds to pondering. At the Columbia Journalism Review, Ryan Chittum considered the distracting qualities of the link and their influence on our ability to pay attention: Think about reading a newspaper pre-Web that decided it wanted to turn a few words blue here and there. Isn't that in itself distracting? Now think about how many ti...