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> If you get a chance to take a peek at my mini-piece on "overlinking" in
>the "Idees Fortes" section of the latest (winter, 1996) issue of *Wired*,
>take a trip over to http://charon.sfsu.edu/overlinked.html. The online
>essay is of course much closer to my original intent -- exactly
>equivalent to it, in fact, since I put it on the site myself. To see the
>reduced, condensed and boiled down version in *Wired* next to what I
>originally sent in is to see vividly how editorial decisions can and do
>shape the final form of your ideas in the conventional media publishing
>process.
> Mind you, I'm not complaining about what a cruel editor did to my
>deathless prose. They paid me, and editors have (or feel that have) to
>reshape their "copy" into a format commensurate with their assigned space
>in the magazine. My main point is not to complain about the editorial
>process, but to celebrate the fact that, even though the published piece
>emerged much altered in the editorial compression chamber, I can now
>offer my original vision on the www for all (who care) to see.
>
>-- Arthur Chandler
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