On Entertainment and Thinking
"Entertainment and thinking are very different, but they don't always appear to be so. Clicking through Wikipedia pages on quantum physics, while it may appear to be educational, is still entertainment if I'm not invested in the knowledge and making my own connections - I may simply be using it to procrastinate, something to read, and I won't remember any of it tomorrow. It is not so much the activity as what we put into it that makes it entertainment v. thinking. Running, watching TV, surfing the Net - they can be either, depending on how we approach them." ~ Michele Ciradae
On the Decline of Reading for Leisure
"People don't seem to have any appreciation for reading except to garner the barest facts" ~ Pembquist
"I wonder if there isn't something analogues in peoples current intolerance for prose that doesn't
deliver." ~ Pembquist
On Spending Time Online
"I find myself disembodied after hours online" ~ Cindi
"The disconnect between present, three dimensional space and the unreal world where my eyes and mind go when I'm online" ~ Kisslogic
Distraction from Ads
"Those of you who feel distracted by the number of ads, safari 5 and browser extensions like "readability" will present you with the text of the article. You can then, if you wish, save it as a PDF file and if you have a ipad/kindle etc you can read it on there." ~ Zactu
On Bite Sized Info and Interactive Discussion
"I find myself skimming comments in the discussion below this article and I am struck by a different view. While I do skim, bite-size my info, I also interact on a whole different level. I mail authors, I discuss articles - as you said, media changes us too, and in this we are becoming more conversant, part of an ongoing discussion. Just like you don't listen for hours on end to every person, idea or even lecturer without interjecting, asking questions, participating in the discussion - so are we doing now.
We can, and sometimes do, spend hours upon hours immersed, but more often, we partake in a living discussion. While I might spend time reading a "bite-sized" blog articles, I also read the mileslong discussions underneath. So, all in all, I think that while Carr is quite right that we ARE becoming more bitesized, it is because all discussion is shorter than a speech is." ~ Andeas Ronnqvist
We can, and sometimes do, spend hours upon hours immersed, but more often, we partake in a living discussion. While I might spend time reading a "bite-sized" blog articles, I also read the mileslong discussions underneath. So, all in all, I think that while Carr is quite right that we ARE becoming more bitesized, it is because all discussion is shorter than a speech is." ~ Andeas Ronnqvist
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