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We don't pay enough attention to interactive web writing, even though our kids will take the genre for granted someday.

Think about it. Hypertext gives a story all these features that will be standard storytelling tools twenty years from now: access to encyclopedic knowledge about parts of the text, interaction with other web-pages, and a literal connection to other writers inside your story. 

Using an H.P Lovecraft story, web writer Joshua Birk has come up with a simple model that allows the reader to move through a text in new ways, navigating optional endings without altering the primary text.

Nick Montfort explains everything at the group blog, Grand Text Auto. Dig it:

(Thanks to Steve Bryant for the link. There's no reason for me to read blogs anymore, because he gives me the good stuff.)