A decade and a half ago a set of innovators mapped Usenet and mailing list culture onto the hypertext environment of the web. Many good things resulted, but the cracks in this approach are beginning to show. We propose that an older and alternate approach to conversation, here named The Garden, is required to balance the useful energy of the endless stream of self-assertion we find ourselves in.
Andries "Andy" van Dam (born 8 December 1938 in Groningen) is a Dutch-born American professor of computer science and former vice-president for research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, Hypertext Editing System (HES) in the late 1960s. He co-authored Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice along with J.D. Foley, S.K. Feiner, and John Hughes. He also co-founded the precursor of today's ACM SIGGRAPH conference - wikipedia 
Words provide a metaphorical conduit for our thought that is marginal at best in practice. We supplement traditional composition with Diverse and Personal Context so as to provide for a more embodied experience for later and distant readers.