rw: Instant-classic on nonlinear text-mashups (McGrath-shortish):
These days, we do not order things into tidy beginnings, middles and ends. Consider this: a personal weblog is like an essay without an end. The end is always moving, always co-located with the last entry on the weblog. We just push everything out electronically, all together, every day, changing it all the time. Everything is live. We add order through instant findability provided by search engines, we add commentary using blogs, we slice'n'dice views of the content with WIKIs. Views that go way beyond mere Tables of Contents.
Sure the world of information is chaotic and changing all the time but how could it be any other way? It is chaotic in the same sense that downtown is chaotic.

I'm into the celebration of this, and maybe the denegration of an always-ness / an imperative of structured beginning-middle-end writing. just want to say: there is also a use a pleasure a sometimes-appropriateness-even:perfection to the intentionally beginningtoend Arranged.