Keynote Address: Assessing the quality
of hypertext documents
Peter Brown Messages were:
- We need better authors more than
anything else now. Authors are not
yet used to the medium. Existing
texts can be put into hypertext,
but the construction of new material,
produced explicitly for the hypertext
medium, requires different ways of
working and presenting ideas. Only
a handful of authors today have achieved
significant production.
- Because hypertexts are active (scripts
can run when links are traversed),
they may be the next feeding ground
for computer viruses. They can also
be present in the form of false information,
or of fraudulent information posing
for the real thing.
- How can you trust information contained
in hypertexts?