Bloglines and Twitter underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
With good wifi, ’tis Paradise enow!
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No, Omar, I don’t think so!
Susan Mernit astutely diagnoses her own reading shift to (more and more) on the internet. The New York Times and (more recently) Newsweek now look like problems in paper disposal rather than information–but Susan finds one very interesting exception:
“I am still a huge fan of monthly magazines–the womens/shelter/travel magazines that I get–Country Living, Oprah, Domino, Lucky, Sunset, Food & Wine, Blueprint–are tremendous fun and I enjoy browsing through them and savoring the photos, travel ideas, and things I like but will never buy.
So where’s the paradigm shift? Information versus entertainment.
Very astute, but let me shift her shift some more. I see the difference as more like fast food drive-through versus gourmet picnic basket.
Paper can’t compete with pixels on serving up small bites of information to people hungry for information that’s new–now!
Text on a computer screen can’t compete with printed take-anywhere pages that you savor slowly anywhere you want them–from deep in your favorite chair or on a beach blanket.
Mmmmm! Which not to say I don’t love RSS!
2 responses so far ↓
1 Betsy Devine // Jun 12, 2007 at 7:21 am
Writing Fake Omar is just too tempting!
The busy blogger tweets; and, having twit,
Stays on to read what all the rest have writ.
O, Twitter less, busy Betsy Devine,
Thou hast not time to sit and sit and sit.
2 A little bit about everything » Blog Archive » One two-fer for all // Jun 14, 2007 at 9:06 am
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