Vindu Goel to me - "Hi, Danny. Good luck on your campaign, but Bits doesn't plan to write about it..."-- NEVER?
Vindu Goel to me
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Hi, Danny. Good luck on your campaign, but Bits doesn't plan to write about
it.
And please don't spam unrelated posts on Bits with comments pushing this
idea - I deleted several comments you submitted this morning.
Thanks.
Vindu
Vindu Goel
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The New York Times
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New York, NY 10018
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Email: vindu@nytimes.com
posted by dan at 8:35 AM
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RE: "aper vs. computer screen - Do we need a new word for the way we read on a screen? ("nah - it's not that you're reading on a screen, but what's on the screen, that makes a difference."....." -- ABOVE
Someone I know who has a keen interest in these ideas, although we are coming at it from different angles, told me in a recent email: "Actually, .....I don't think
it's THAT you read on a screen, but WHAT you read online, that's different.
I've been reading e-books on my iPhone, using the Kindle app. These are good
old-fashioned books - no hyperlinks, just text. I don't think I read them
any differently on a screen than I do printed books.
But Web items you do read differently, particularly if you take the time to
follow links and explore extra material. So, it's not the medium itself,
it's how the author has taken advantage of the medium, or not."
Good points, all.
Whether a new word, what Beam calls a neologism, ever takes off and comes to stand for "reading on a screen" -- and it might be screening, diging, scanning, browsing, or some new word we have not coined yet -- I do believe that since reading on paper is SO different, emotionally and intellectually, from reading text on a screen, that someday SOON, maybe in 20 years, a new word will replace "reading" for what we do on screens. But who knows what that word will be? It certainly won't be "screening". "Screening" is a bit awkward, I agree. It's just to get the global discussion going. Kindling is already a verb, so who knows which verb will replace reading when we "read" online or on a screen? I dunno. I am just posing the question, poseur that I am.
-- Danny Bloom in a cave in Taiwan
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