Lecture et écriture du texte numérique

The way that the Internet is designed—not graphic design, but overall habits and architecture—encourages the widespread distractability that I, at least, hate.

I learned it from Nicholas Carr

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.

Our results demonstrate that basic orthographic processing skills can be acquired in the absence of preexisting linguistic representations.

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.

Orthographic processing lies at the interface between the visual processing and the linguistic processing involved in written language comprehension.

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.

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.

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

Peter Sloterdijk fait remarquer que tout l’humanisme occidental consiste à avoir des adultes qui voudraient que leurs enfants lisent en silence sous une lampe. Et dès que les enfants commencent à s’agiter autrement, à s’agiter, à sortir, à éteindre la lampe et à bouger, les humanistes de la civilisation occidentale depuis son origine tremblent. Donc, je me permets de reprendre cette formule un peu cruelle de Sloterdijk pour dire que je voudrais que ces enfants sortent un peu du silence sous la lampe et qu’ils fassent autre chose qui est finalement bien intéressant

Le passage du caractère mobile au 0 et 1 de la numérisation va effectivement nous permettre de relire ce qu’a été cet amalgame provisoire qu’on a appelé l’objet livre en pelant en quelque sorte, comme un oignon, ces différentes fonctions que nous avons crues confondues.