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William Ian O'Byrne sur Twitter : "Must read - Everything Science Knows About Reading On Screens #onlinereading. Everything Science Knows About Reading On Screens. Thanks to technology, we’re reading more than ever—our brains process thousands of words via text messages, email, games, social media, and web stories. According to one report, the amount people that read tripled from 1980 to the late 2000s, and it’s probably safe to say that trend continues today. But as we jam more and more words into our heads, how we read those words has changed in a fundamental way: we’ve moved from paper to screens. It’s left many wondering what we’ve lost (or gained) in the shift, and a handful of scientists are trying to figure out the answer. Of course, there’s no clear-cut answer to the paper vs. screen question—it’s tangled with variables, like what kind of medium we’re talking about (paper, e-book, laptop, iPhone), the type of text (Fifty Shades of Grey or War and Peace), who’s reading and their preference, whether they’re a digital native, and many other factors.

But what about e-books? Shhh! Don’t Tell Google News You’re a Blog!: Tech News and Analysis « Google recently rolled out some enhancements to its Google News site, including settings that allow users to say whether they want to see more or less news from “blogs.” But how does the search giant define the term “blog?” After all, the lines between traditional media and the blogosphere have blurred a lot over the past few years, with traditional media entities launching blogs, and some blog sites becoming major media entities. According to Google, it looks at a bunch of different factors the company won’t specify, but the main one is whether a source calls itself a blog or not, just reinforcing the point that drawing a distinction between blogs and non-blogs is a mug’s game when it comes to the news.

Google first started drawing a distinction between regular news sources and blogs in 2009, but it was never really clear how the search company was defining the term “blog,” or why it included some obvious blogs but not others in that category. That’s not all, though. ORCA Project: Practicality Survey: LRA10. The Business Of Burying Internet Search Results. Sketchpad - Online Paint/Drawing application. Aardvark Publishes A Research Paper Offering Unprecedented Insig.

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Social. Internet. Video. Writing. Editing. Documents. The Renegades at the New York 'Times' - The All New Is. On the day Barack Obama was elected, a strange new feature appeared on the website of the New York Times. Called the Word Train, it asked a simple question: What one word describes your current state of mind? Readers could enter an adjective or select from a menu of options. They could specify whether they supported McCain or Obama. Below, the results appeared in six rows of adjectives, scrolling left to right, coded red or blue, descending in size of font.

The larger the word, the more people felt that way. All day long, the answers flowed by, a river of emotion—anonymous, uncheckable, hypnotic. It was a kind of poll. This past year has been catastrophic for the New York Times. And yet, even as the financial pages wrote the paper’s obit, deep within that fancy Renzo Piano palace across from the Port Authority, something hopeful has been going on: a kind of evolution. To Pilhofer’s astonishment, Landman said yes on the spot.