Jacques Derrida in digital enviroment?

Peter Lurie in "Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left: Deconstructing Hyperlinks" has chosen to explain the contribution of internet to reading using Derrida's deconstruction. I'm interested in his post because of my comment that internet scholarship can be viewed as one of the many hermeneutical approaches. While I'm not sure Peter sufficiently apply deconstruction , he manages to illuminate how the web works in reading of biblical passages and the internet as a post-modernist tool of reading. which I think was his aim anyway.

• One thing for sure is that in reading a passage online, the authority of reading the texts lies with the surfer. The reader chooses where to begin and end his/her reading using the building blocks of the web (HTML, hyperlinks, frames, and meta-tags). "They combine to create a highly associative, endlessly referential and contingent environment that provides an expanse of information at the same time that it subverts any claim to authority, since another view is just a click away." - Now here is where Derrida comes in for Peter.

"Hypertext markup language (HTML) provides graphic display instructions to the web browser. Codes control the presentation of each web page, including pictures, colors, fonts and the organization of text. Without HTML, a web browser would show a continuous scroll of plain text. Although HTML is normally invisible, the viewer can select a viewing option that exposes the program codes. With HTML visible, the structure of each web page is laid bare, like a theater with transparent curtains and sets, so the lighting crew, scaffolding, director and actors in the wings were all visible. Hyperlinks, which often appear in underlined blue text, provide the essential connectivity of the web, enabling the user to jump from one page to another, a sort of black hole through which a viewer can jump in and emerge in another place. Framing divides a web site into separate windows, each displayed in a separate part of the screen and independently functional. Hyperlinks connect each frame, allowing the user to move among screens without leaving the site. Search engines organize information on the web as well, while helping users locate information they want. Google returns a short description of and hyperlink to a list of sites ranked by likely relevance. In many cases the web page communicates to the search engine through metatags, which are encoded in the HTML and usually consist of key words that provide an associative description of the site itself."

how about a biblical passage?

• "For the deconstructionist, each text is endlessly referential, a web of associations and connections that is finally ambiguous.- reading the bible onlineReading the bible online at www.bible.org is a typically interactive effort, one that despite the intentions of the Biblical Studies Foundation, which operates the site, explodes the authority of the text. The viewer chooses any of eighteen different versions of the bible, and then finds a matrix of hyperlinks organized by chapter and verse that link to the requested section. Four frames provide the biblical text and accompanying information, including footnotes hyperlinked to other sources with explanatory material, a hyperlinked index of every other chapter, and links to the Biblical Studies Foundation's homepage, as well as other related sources. The site also contains the customary search function, which appears on the left, and of course the internet browser itself has a search function that is always visible, so that an engaged reader may be constantly toggling between biblical text, commentary in the footnotes, word searches suggested by the bible or footnotes or a combination of both. Readers unfamiliar with a word may click on the footnote with a short definition or synonym. If that is unsatisfactory, typing the word into the search function will yield a link to a dictionary of biblical words, terms and phrases that may offer a more refined and accurate definition. The reader may be satisfied and return to the text or pursue the matter further, needing just two clicks to find the same passage in an alternative translation. If the reader is interested in a historical analysis of the passage, a search for ?biblical history' yields and array of relevant academic and religious sites from all perspectives. A reader might devote a day to pursuing a single passage, a single line, finding herself farther and farther afield from the original text and translation. Indeed, she might forget which site she was reading. Reading the bible online is an exploration of multiple sources, commentators and bibliographic tributaries."
• "The Web invites, even demands that its users go back, forward, around and elsewhere in an associative search for meaning.- -

Peter Lurie however fails to point out how the web also enable the reader to deconstruct ideologies maybe in terms of policies that accompany web pages. this i suppose was an important aspect in Derridas concept of deconstruction.