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[ocschwar]

The web is killing our attention spans.

I have to admit I read this article on my blackberry, in dribs and drabs, standing in line at stores.

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[oonh.livejournal.com]

This is more or less exactly why I want to buy an old vt220/vt320 dec terminal. Having two monitors is really attention draining.

[dpolicar]

I was going to read it, but then

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

Squirrel!

[seborn.livejournal.com]

Reading a single article over the course of several line-standing episodes sounds like a peculiarly long span of attention to me, if it makes sense to speak of attention that can be backgrounded or dormant.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

If I could have read the same article on Firefox, then yes. But on Firefox, there is tabbing. And with tabbing, comes temptation. And with temptation, distraction. And with distraction, suffering.

So I had to read it on the blackberry