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Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 3 views

  • They should be like the historical coffeehouses, taverns and pubs where one shifts flexibly between focused and collective reading — much like opening a newspaper and debating it in a more socially networked version of the current New York Times Room for Debate.
    • Bakari Chavanu
       
      Many websites like NewsVine seem to offer this kind of experience.
  • Still, people read more slowly on screen, by as much as 20-30 percent. Fifteen or 20 years ago, electronic reading also impaired comprehension compared to paper, but those differences have faded in recent studies.
  • Reading on screen requires slightly more effort and thus is more tiring, but the differences are small and probably matter only for difficult tasks.
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  • In one study, workers switched tasks about every three minutes and took over 23 minutes on average to return to a task. Frequent task switching costs time and interferes with the concentration needed to think deeply about what you read.
  • After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read. We learn to do so by an extraordinarily ingenuous ability to rearrange our “original parts” — like language and vision, both of which have genetic programs that unfold in fairly orderly fashion within any nurturant environment. Reading isn’t like that.
  • And that, of course, is the problem at hand. No one really knows the ultimate effects of an immersion in a digital medium on the young developing brain. We do know a great deal, however, about the formation of what we know as the expert reading brain that most of us possess to this point in history
  • Hypertext offers loads of advantages. If while reading online you come across the name “Antaeus” and forget your Greek mythology, a hyperlink will take you directly to an online source where you are reminded that he was the Libyan giant who fought Hercules. And if you’re prone to distraction, you can follow another link to find out his lineage, and on and on. That is the duality of hyperlinks. A hyperlink brings you to information faster but is also more of a distraction.
  • floor. I once counted my books among my most prized possesions, now I wish I could somehow convert them all to digital files.
  • My book shelves are full, and books are stacked on the
  • Textbooks also require big double pages with margins for notes. Writing and reading are communication between writer and reader, the audience and genre (and thus expectations) are important, and the format and technology can be used for bad or good. One is not better than the other, they are different, and the more we know of the needs of writers and readers the better technology will become.
  • All of the commentators and responses miss a crucial question here: reading for what purpose?
  • To further complicate this, most of what I read for pleasure is about art or photography, and the kind of history that comes with cool pictures. If paper suddenly disappeared I'd be lost. Most of what I read for work has to be verified, cross referenced, fact-checked, etc. on a tight deadline. If the Internet suddenly disappeared, I'd be more than lost--I'd be paralyzed.
  • I also completely disagree that the web has killed editing. It has just changed the process to include the reader. It would be more accurate to say that it is killing the sanctity of Editors. 'Bout time, that.
  • The missing component in E-Reading seems to be the ability to critically grasp and evaluate the material. Learning is transmitted, but it is more linear than holistic. Now in my 70's, I find that reading from a monitor is a distancing experience. There is an intimacy to reading from a traditional book that is missing in the digital format.
  • Chinese reading circuits require more visual memory than alphabets.
  • I assume that technology will soon start moving in the natural direction: integrating chips into books, not vice versa.
  • important ongoing change to reading itself in today’s online environment is the cheapening of the word.
  • Hypertext offers loads of advantages.
  • When you read news, or blogs or fiction, you are reading one document in a networked maze
  • More and more, studies are showing how adept young people are at multitasking. But the extent to which they can deeply engage with the online material is a question for further research.
  • However, displays have vastly improved since then, and now with high resolution monitors reading speed is no different than reading from paper.
syukron nuryadi

LG G2 user manual and specifications - 0 views

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Buy Yelp Reviews - 100% Real, Permanent, Reviews - 0 views

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    Buy Yelp Reviews Introduction Yelp is the largest review site on the internet. It has over 400 million reviews and counting, and it's growing fast. You can find everything on Yelp: restaurants, shops, banks and even real estate agents! Most importantly though, you can buy Yelp reviews from RealServiceIT at the lowest price online! What is yelp? Yelp is a website that allows users to rate and review local businesses. It was founded in 2004 by two former PayPal employees, Jeremy Estoppel and Russel Simmons. The company has since grown into an American multinational corporation with more than 2 million reviews on its site alone, covering over 500 cities across the U.S., Canada and Mexico (and counting). Yelp claims to be the world's leading local guide for consumers looking for great local businesses at any point in time-from restaurants and coffee shops, pet services and dentists, garage sales or car repair services-to hotels & resorts; auto dealerships; beauty salons & spas; doctors offices & hospitals; mortgage companies etc.. How to buy Yelp reviews You can buy Yelp reviews from a review site. This is the most common way that businesses do it, because you don't need to spend money on content creation or pay people to write it for you. You'll probably want to choose an agency that has access to a lot of Yelpers and knows how they work, so they can find the right ones for your business' needs. The best agencies have access not only to all the current Yelps in their network but also those who were recently active (and therefore likely active again soon) as well as past customers who have left positive feedback about their experience at your business location(s). Why buy from a review site? Why buy from a review site? They're real. You know that person who has been giving you bad advice? There is no way they would do so if they were doing it out of the goodness of their heart, right? Well, that same logic applies here. If someone is giving you a bad
Brad Cozine

brightkite.com - 0 views

  • What is Brightkite? Location-based social networking Discover who visits your favorite places. Join the community in real time. Track your friends See where your friends are and what they're up to, in real time. Meet people around you Meet real world friends. Reveal your location, befriend, and chat with people around you.
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    Can someone send me an invite? brad.cozine (at) gmail.com ... thanks!
Thieme Hennis

YouNoodle | Browse startups. Find exceptional people. - 0 views

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    YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation. We develop decision-making technology and tools for the startup community.
Andrew Long

Social Networking on Intranets | Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox - 0 views

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    "Community features are spreading from 'Web 2.0' to 'Enterprise 2.0.' Research across 14 companies found that many are making productive use of social intranet features."
Manish Kumar

MNO Portal Services For Mobile Operators - 3 views

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    In the current scenario of declining voice revenue and greater competition, mobile operators see mobile content and applications as a way to both increase revenue and combat competition in order to attract new customers and win the loyalty of existing ones. In order to make their presence felt in this competitive scenario, mobile operators need to deliver content and services in a variety of forms.
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Merced 2.0 - Social Tech News - 0 views

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    This is a great way to read all your tech news in a community fashion!
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    Social Tech News Site for voting up and down all your favorite tech and web news.
Vincent Lu

How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It - Faceboogle - Google vs. Fac... - 0 views

  • But what is new is that the interfaces have changed to allow each member of a community to have their own microsite—an identity on the Web that is unique and centralized. And this focus on online identity is what could turn search upside down.
    • Vincent Lu
       
      This ideal scenario is based on the precondition of unique micro site for everyone, i.e. the prevalance of open ID.
Fritz Friend

Berliner Startup Servtag gewinnt den 2. Platz der internationalen NFC Forum Global Comp... - 0 views

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    Das Berliner Startup Servtag hat mit seinem ortsbasierten mobilen Service „Friendticker.com" erfolgreich an der diesjährigen NFC Forum Global Competition in Monaco teilgenommen. Von insgesamt...
Sarah HL

origo - Google Code - 0 views

shared by Sarah HL on 08 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Origo is a Web-application that enables users to manage their social community profiles utilizing semantic technologies. It allows to unite their different profiles and to browse through their semantic social network across various platforms.
Diego Morelli

Tangible Knowledge & Social Media - 11 views

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    Here's an interesting description by D. Roberts about social media as a collection of knowledge assets that have to be organized, in order to achieve what he calls "Tangible Knowledge, the Holy grail of finance". Some highlights from my transcription below... (continue...)
Diego Morelli

Online Music & P2P Networks: artists-to-fans-to-artists - 2 views

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    A new blog is officially online for discussing music on the Web, with debates on payments to artists and issues related to copyright. It's called a2f2a (artists to fans to artists), and here's the mission statement as stated on the blog page: (continue...)
Diego Morelli

Collective Intelligence & Cyberspace - 1 views

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    Interesting slides, that "introduce the necessity of a new language that can set a link between the machine process of cyberspace and the uman collective intelligence, which is dynamic, in constant change and made in different languages, from different approaches."....
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Great Advice To Help You Generate Good Leads - 1 views

Lead generation is a process which isn't necessarily easy to figure out. Have you struggled to master it yourself? If so, this article has some great ideas which can help you turn lead generation i...

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