Korean Blogging & Hyperlinks

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Joi Ito, the blogger's blogger, shared some fascinating info on the state of blogging in Korea, where the adoption and use of internet technologies is incredible. This raised some interesting questions for Doc Searls, but the question Doc raises for me is why blog if you're not going to use hyperlinks? David Weinberger pointed to
How could something so small alter the fundamentals of business life? Easy. This
wee beastie represents an important change in how pieces are put together -- and
since all of life is about putting pieces together, this isn’t a wee thing at
all.

When Carlos Castenada asked, "..... how are you arranging your conclusions so that your current experiences fit into your scheme of complacency?"did he know how powerful the little thing called a hyperlink was going to be in getting us beyond that compalcency?

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