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iPhone OS 4.0 to Bring Expose-like Multitasking? - Mac Rumors - 0 views

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  • gaurang jariwala on 31 Mar 10
     
    AppleInsider offers some details on multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, which would allow users greater ability to run multiple apps at a time and easily switch between them. According to the report, mult
Joe Miano

Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • AT THE SAME time the Internet’s nurturing of niche cultures is contributing to what Cass Sunstein calls “cyberbalkanization.” Individuals can design feeds and alerts from their favorite Web sites so that they get only the news they want, and with more and more opinion sites and specialized sites, it becomes easier and easier, as Mr. Sunstein observes in his 2009 book “Going to Extremes,” for people “to avoid general-interest newspapers and magazines and to make choices that reflect their own predispositions.”
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      I really reject what Cass Sunstein is saying here. He is lamenting that people are finding outlets of news and opinion that they like or agree with. Just because these outlets are not to his liking or approval, he labels them as extreme and suggests that we use sources that he approves of. This is the mentality of censureship and is contrary to free speech. It treats people like we are too ingnorant to make decisions about ascertaining news and opinion.
  • All too often, however, the recycling and cut-and-paste esthetic has resulted in tired imitations; cheap, lazy re-dos; or works of “appropriation” designed to generate controversy
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      Digital media has definitely created more opportunity for plagiarism, and re-use of work without permission. This loss of control over creative work has irked many creators because they find that there work is presented in wasy that they never intended. I remember reading an article a month or so ago saying that Pink Floyd had sued their record label for allowing their Dark Side of the Moon album to be sold on iTunes as individual songs. Floyd did not like that because all of the songs on that album seamlessly flow from one to a next, so selling individual songs would completely lose that.
  • “Reading in the traditional open-ended sense is not what most of us, whatever our age and level of computer literacy, do on the Internet,” the scholar Susan Jacoby writes in “The Age of American Unreason.” “What we are engaged in — like birds of prey looking for their next meal — is a process of swooping around with an eye out for certain kinds of information.”
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      That is very true, I notice that when I surf the web for news or research I rarely read the entire article. Only after I narrow down the results to what I think is most relevant will I really read the whole piece.
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      anonymous on 31 Mar 10
       
      I feel this is true as well. When I read over an article, I either skim through or look for the most important parts.
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  • which suggests that increased Internet use is rewiring our brains, impairing our ability to think deeply and creatively even as it improves our ability to multitask.
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      I think that this should be interpeted as a call for moderation in activity. There are both pros and cons to traditional books and digital media, and probably it is best to become proficient at both.
  • He points out that much of the chatter online today is actually “driven by fan responses to expression that was originally created within the sphere of old media,” which many digerati mock as old-fashioned and passé, and which is now being destroyed by the Internet
    • Joe Miano
      Joe Miano on 31 Mar 10
       
      Interesting point, I have noticed that on sites like YouTube, many users are still devoted fans to older music and movies and this enthusiasm does not seem to be present in newer film/music.
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