Short item observing, correctly, that "writing is being treated more and more as a visual entity. No longer is the unbroken, uniform, left to right flow of text the norm. Instead, in the new media especially, text plays a secondary role to images, meandering around them..." The author then considers the question of how people comprehend such writing, especially when, as in a wiki, it is written by multiple authors. It may be a long time before we understand this comprehensively - the traditional linear format could be understood with tools such as syntactic analysis. But in this new form of writing, so much of the meaning is derived from outside the text - there will not be a simple grammar we can use ourselves and teach our students. Via Will Richardson, who links to James Farmer (above) on this.
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