Jim Nielsen’s short manifesto professes his love to the hyperlink

Interconnectedness is the whole point. Links form the whole. Without links, there is no whole. No links means no web, only silos. Isolation.

It reminds me of an earlier post by Adrian Roselli about the beauty of hyperlinks

They represent the ideal of a democratized information system.

Which leads me invariably to the classic from The Cluetrain Manifesto:

Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy

This is what lead me to the web in the first place. The possibility to link to anything else on the web was an eye-opener to me. It gave me whole new world to explore and find new connections, new people. That’s why blogging and personal sites will always remain important to me. They give the freedom to discover and link on your terms.

What a nice coincidence with the web being 35 years young today!