Hyperlinks redivivus

I love Laura Miller, the Salon editor. She's written an essay on the so-called Hyperlink War. Apparently, there's now some discussion as to whether or not embedded hyperlinks are enhancing or destroying our ability to focus and/or understand and/or ever finish an article, all the while relating back to recent stories, especially in the Times, about attention-span declines and overall dummification of things. She tries to go green and eliminate embedded links, instead batching them all at the end of the essay. I found that the text flowed better because I didn't have to decide whether or not to follow a link when it arrived. Yet I didn't click on any of the ones at the end, because I'd finished the article and didn't feel a need to. I often get sidetracked from linking while reading, and then having to backtrack to track back, but I'm a clicker, not a skipper. And I also prefer footnotes to endnotes.