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Enhanced ebooks are bad for children finds American study | Books | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
Diigo Blog » How to post bookmarks to Diigo on iPhone - 0 views
The End of Solitude - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge — broadband tipping the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider — the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible.
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I once asked my students about the place that solitude has in their lives. One of them admitted that she finds the prospect of being alone so unsettling that she'll sit with a friend even when she has a paper to write. Another said, why would anyone want to be alone?
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Man may be a social animal, but solitude has traditionally been a societal value. In particular, the act of being alone has been understood as an essential dimension of religious experience, albeit one restricted to a self-selected few. Through the solitude of rare spirits, the collective renews its relationship with divinity.
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Rapport sur le livre numérique - 1 views
Why the iPad Works for Writing - 1 views
Day One - Mac Journal Application for iPhone, iPad and Mac Desktop - 1 views
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The easiest to use journal / diary / text logging application for the Mac is also the best looking. Day One is designed and focused to encourage you to write more. Using the Menu Bar quick entry, Reminder system, Calendar view and inspirational messages your memories and thoughts will be preserved. iCloud or Dropbox sync allows easy backup and syncing with the Day One iPhone and iPad applications.
Format, distribution, lecture: des éditeurs et des libraires pour un livre nu... - 0 views
La guerre des livres n'aura pas lieu - Nonfiction.fr le portail des livres et... - 0 views
Larry Sanger Blog » How not to use the Internet, part 2: the pernicious desig... - 0 views
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The way that the Internet is designed—not graphic design, but overall habits and architecture—encourages the widespread distractability that I, at least, hate.
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I learned it from Nicholas Carr
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Interconnectivity: information that is of some inherent public interest is typically marinated in meta-information: (a) is bathed in (b). It is not enough to make the inherently interesting content instantly available and easy to find; it must also be surrounded by links, sidebars, menus, and other info, and promoted on social media via mail. This is deliberate, but it has gotten worse in the last ten years or so, with the advent of syndicated blog feeds (RSS), then various other social media feeds. This is, of course, supposed to be for the convenience and enlightenment of the user, and no doubt sometimes it is. But I think it usually doesn’t help anybody, except maybe people who are trying to build web traffic. Recency: the information to be most loudly announced online is not just recent, but the brand-spanking-newest, and what allegedly deserves our attention now is determined democratically, with special weight given to the opinions of people we know.
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Orthographic Processing in Baboons (Papio papio) - 1 views
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Our results demonstrate that basic orthographic processing skills can be acquired in the absence of preexisting linguistic representations.
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The computation of letter identities and their relative positions is referred to as orthographic processing, and there is a large consensus today that such processing represents the first “language-specific” stage of the reading process that follows the operations involved in the control of eye movements (bringing words into the focus of central vision) and early visual processing (enabling visual feature extraction; Fig. 1A) (1–4). In the present study, we examined whether the ability to efficiently process orthographic information can operate in the absence of prior linguistic knowledge.
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Orthographic processing lies at the interface between the visual processing and the linguistic processing involved in written language comprehension.
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Top 10 sites pour télécharger des ebooks francophones - Aldus - depuis 2006 - 3 views
- How We Will Read: Clay Shirky - 0 views
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Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There’s a button that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done.
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The question is, what are the parent professions needed around writing? Publishing isn’t one of them. Editing, we need, desperately. Fact-checking, we need. For some kinds of long-form texts, we need designers.
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for all that I didn’t like the original Kindle, one of its greatest features was that you couldn’t get your email on it
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