Some guy with the last name Carr has written extensively on why the internet is replacing Analytical Man with Flickering Man, ending a rich five centuries of widespread literacy and replacing it with stupid internet-connected morons who just hop from link to link. I, for one, have found the opposite true: since my introduction to easy internet access, my reading quantity and quality, and my ability to analyze, have grown by leaps and bounds. So it’s annoying for me when I see a page which treats its readers like attentionspanless monkeys. An example is here. It’s an article I just posted on. Notice how the reader is rudely interrupted at the ends of paragraphs 2, 4, and 6 by only mildly related links. The implicit statement is that Yahoo(tm) considers us so short-minded as to be liable to just leave their corner of cyberspace altogether if we’re not repeatedly reminded by the article itself that there’s other diverting stuff we could leave it for. Yahoo(tm) has found a way to insult us and their own content simultaneously.
yahoo treats us like yahoos
Some guy with the last name Carr has written extensively on why the internet is replacing Analytical Man with Flickering Man, ending a rich five centuries of widespread literacy and replacing it with stupid internet-connected morons who just hop from link to link. I, for one, have found the opposite true: since my introduction to easy internet access, my reading quantity and quality, and my ability to analyze, have grown by leaps and bounds. So it’s annoying for me when I see a page which treats its readers like attentionspanless monkeys. An example is here. It’s an article I just posted on. Notice how the reader is rudely interrupted at the ends of paragraphs 2, 4, and 6 by only mildly related links. The implicit statement is that Yahoo(tm) considers us so short-minded as to be liable to just leave their corner of cyberspace altogether if we’re not repeatedly reminded by the article itself that there’s other diverting stuff we could leave it for. Yahoo(tm) has found a way to insult us and their own content simultaneously.
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