Just what the hell is a “Links Editor,” anyway?
In my job of Links Editor, I am responsible for making sure submissions to Kairos adhere to the spirit of our “Links Policy,” a document that encourages relatively clean and navigable hypertext styles, and that ensures various webtexts can be integrated well into our Kairos shell. While most of our authors are so experienced in hypertext design that I mostly nod and smile at their thoroughness, I occasionally suggest revisions that will make the hypertext more effective in terms of its linking strategies: inclusion of new links, removal of “because we can link” links, and extension of hotlinked phrases that would make the links’ destinations more clear. So I am somewhere in between a hypertext style consultant and a link-checker. I enjoy the former task much more.
