http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/06/02/why-links-belong-in-text/

Lest you think Nicholas Carr is the end of the story. I think the existence of tabbed browsing today makes the argument largely obsolete: I do an enormous amount of reading on the internet, and rarely do I find that my reading follows a link trail with the meandering style Carr describes. I open a link with ctrl+click, then read the rest of the article I'm on, then move to the article that was opened, etc. If I'm focusing on a specific blogger, I'll maybe ctrl+click twenty times before moving to the linked content; Nicholas Carr is describing a manner of reading on the internet which is foreign to my, and most people's, I think, experience.