I love the beautiful irony, both in your post, and that an editorial which harped on our decreasing ability to concentrate was one of the longest walls of text I've ever seen online. No pictures? No videos? Nothing. Sheesh! I was distracted by something shiny somewhere around his talk of Nietzsche.
The biggest change I've noticed in my own reading habits (thanks to the internet) is the need for conversational tone. If my High School English teachers are to be believed, I've always liked writing that way. But with the prevalence of blogging, microblogging, IM, and text messaging (to say nothing of actual media) I have no tolerance for reading formal writing anymore. Though the need for perpetual disruption is most certainly always there, pulling at the ADD strings in my head.
I love the beautiful irony, both in your post, and that an editorial which harped on our decreasing ability to concentrate was one of the longest walls of text I've ever seen online. No pictures? No videos? Nothing. Sheesh! I was distracted by something shiny somewhere around his talk of Nietzsche.
The biggest change I've noticed in my own reading habits (thanks to the internet) is the need for conversational tone. If my High School English teachers are to be believed, I've always liked writing that way. But with the prevalence of blogging, microblogging, IM, and text messaging (to say nothing of actual media) I have no tolerance for reading formal writing anymore. Though the need for perpetual disruption is most certainly always there, pulling at the ADD strings in my head.