It is chilling. One of the other take-aways from Jakob Nielson's research was that on average, a web visitor reads 20% of the content (http://www.digitalsolid.com/20...) That said, I have to admit that Prof Bauerlein's screed was a little too dense for me. I'm ashamed to admit I skimmed it. PS: I'm 49 years old. - Jeff Larche
Interesting point of view. I guess because I prefer digital consumption to reading (often because I think it's easier to enter notes, highlight key passages, etc. electronically) I wanted to challenge his assertions. But I'm 38. I grew up with books and writing. That is the base upon which I built my digital literacy. I can't see how that might be different for the generations that follow me. Certainly an issue to think about. - Team Frosick
Great article, though I must admit I scanned it... (and didn't even notice Jeff's comment above saying he'd skimmed it first) - Brent Logan
"It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed? " - newsjunk.com
Evidence of an increasing drift by many conservatives and traditional Republicans from the new disastrous neoconservative version of the Republican Party. And has everyone noticed that beneath the "bottomless reservoir of certitudes" exists a bottomless well of ignorance about everything? I haven't heard McCain offer an informed and coherent policy analysis on any issue -- that is why is he all over the map. His self-contradictions are all offered with the same strident certitude. - Sean McBride
How can I find out if you've subscribed to my FriendFeed? - Lawrence Liu
via twhirl
According to the little bubble, not me. Even though you said the other day I was being added to the World Wide Talk Show. ;-) Oops, can't press Enter for a newline. What I was going to say, prior to the Post button getting unexpectedly pressed, is that I cannot imagine following 20,000 (or even some fraction of that) on FF. It's gotta be tough as it is on Twitter. - Joanmarie
Guessing that comments are the way to let you know :) - Jed White
Holy crap. You've practically got the SNN goin' on - Scoble News Network ?? You will all be featured this week on Fast Company TV - Submit bio to ... - Charlie Anzman
This is the greatest thing to happen to anyone ever! Cheesecake for everybody. - Akiva Moskovitz
I let you know via Twitter, perhaps this is more appropriate. - bill shamam
IF you are able to WITHSTAND fair portion of Russian (sorry, but I try to bring here my community from Russian segment of livejournal.com after buyout disaster) and/or stream of Nokia-tablet/Maemo/etc related-stuff and/or a lot of bitch about this and that... http://friendfeed.com/silpol ;) - silpol
Robert, I appreciate your efforts, but I'm afraid that if I follow you (and you follow me in return), I'll have to deal with a lot of noise, and a lot of hype. Once you get worked up about something, you have this need to talk about it all the time, and to impose your point of view (ex: FaceBook). That's why I unsubscribed from your blog a while back. I couldn't deal with it any more. You shot down two of my comments without even bothering to consider them. Take this for what it's worth, no hard feelings. - Raoul Pop
You're not subscribed to me, here, but anything I have to say that might be interesting to you, I say in a comment anyway... I'm not very talkative, but I enjoy watching your conversation! - Kenneth LeFebvre
