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Mark Bauerlein has an article on the difficulty of slow reading online. In the eye-tracking test, only one in six subjects read Web pages linearly, sentence by sentence. The rest jumped around chasing keywords, bullet points, visuals, and color and typeface variations. In another experiment on how people read e-newsletters, informational e-mail messages, and news In the July Atlantic’s cover story, Nick Carr has an interesting and provocative article about the effects of Google and other Internet technologies on our cognitive processes. The Internet promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on cognition…The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It’s becoming our map and A peek behind the scenes of RIAA’s anti-piracy efforts from the New Zealand Herald: To root out illegal file-sharing activity, the RIAA works with Maryland-based MediaSentry, which has developed customized programs that also operate over the Gnutella network. MediaSentry has a list of recordings owned by RIAA-member companies and, like any P2P user, can search for What has the world come to? Amazon is spitting out an error message currently, and it’s been going on for at least a few minutes now. Some systems administrators over there are surely having a baad day right now. The error is Http/1.1 Service Unavailable. |
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