Jun 17, 2008

Information foraging

The way we read online will shape what we see online.

Think Nebraska corn fields if you think our habits encourage diversity or complexity.

For newspapers, this trend will reinforce the move toward distraction journalism - short pieces structured to catch the attention of the drive-by reader.

Perhaps journalists should learn to write in haiku.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why you hating on Nebraska?

Gary Scott said...

I do not judge the corn.

Anonymous said...

I read the Slate article (and got rick rolled in the process dammit). In many ways it differs little from what journalists understand about how the average reader reads a newspaper: foraging through headlines, reading pull quotes and subheds, skimming short paragraphs...Yawn.

Anonymous said...

GO BIG RED!!

Anonymous said...

A Haiku:

What's new in SoCal?

Who knows? We run wire copy.

Fuck you Singleton.