I have just spent a frustrating half hour trying to set up an online account with a social media service (which shall remain nameless). It was frustrating because of the “missing link.” The written directions said to “click here” and “click there.” Unfortunately, there was no “there” there. It was unclear where to find the […]
Deep Reading
I continue to think about the notion that “As Technology Advances, Deep Reading Suffers” that Nicholas Carr explores in his June 20, 2010, article in the San Francisco Chronicle (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/06/20/INL91DU44K.DTL You see, according to recent studies, the average American spends more than eight hours a day peering at a screen, but only 20 minutes reading books […]
The Space
Here’s a little factoid for you. Word spaces (or the spaces between the words) were invented in the Middle Ages. Before then, people didn’t separate one word from the next. As Nicholas Carr explains in his June 20, 2010, article “As Technology Advances, Deep Reading Suffers” in the San Francisco Chronicle (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/06/20/INL91DU44K.DTL): “Long lines of […]
Internet Spells Death of English
I recently read an article entitled “Internet Spells the End of English” http://bit.ly/6khLsu Given that title, I assumed that the article would rail about how texting, phonetic spellings and the like were destroying English communication. Instead, the headline writer had cleverly (if obtusely) hinted at the real topic of the article: how the Internet is […]
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