A couple of days ago the web lit up with excitement over a free, innovative content linking tool: Apture. Once you have established your account, you insert a piece of code into your blog template. From then on, after publishing a post, you go back to the post in your web browser and select words or phrases from your post, even whole paragraphs, to which you wish to assign links that will then appear when others view your post and mouse over the inserted link. You can link to video from a variety of sources, Wikipedia articles, flickr pictures, webpages, documents you have uploaded, maps, Washington Post archives, audio, etc.

This little video explains more about the Apture experience.

I always preview my posts immediately after publishing them, so this additional step in my workflow is not too cumbersome, especially as the links add a new level of interactivity with the content, providing an extra level of depth. And if you find the extra links distracting, you simply avoid placing your mouse over them. So now, here at drTimTyson.com, not only can you double click any word that is not a link and get a definition (AnswerTips), you can also now mouse over any of the Apture links to delve deeper.