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Online, Are You Really Reading?
- dangoldin 18y agoIt's articles like these that make me wonder whether the NY Times knows it's insulting its subjects: Nadia also writes her own stories. She posted “Dieing Isn’t Always Bad,” about a girl who comes back to life as half cat, half human, on both fanfiction.net and quizilla.com. Nadia said she wanted to major in English at college and someday hopes to be published. She does not see a problem with reading few books. “No one’s ever said you should read more books to get into college,” she said.
- markbao 18y agoHeh, nice find. The media likes to criticize its subjects. e.g. http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/fortuenstevesmall.png http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/fortuenstevesmall.png
- crocus 18y agoOh, they definitely know it. The deadpan diss is a Times specialty.
- dangoldin 18y agoI suppose the nice thing is that they will probably never realize they are being mocked.
- anewaccountname 18y agoOh yeah I'm reading, up until a site does something stupid like require registration. I also stop am forced to stop reading sometimes when a site converts a pdf to a scribd link and crashes my whole computer =)
- Create 18y ago+1. Feel free to use anewaccountname. The pair-word for it is right after $myaccountname on the login/registration page.
- anewaccountname 18y agohuh?
- sc 18y agoAn annoying step, but http://bugmenot.com http://bugmenot.com
- tdoggette 18y agoI didn't go so far as to read the article behind the wall, but the upshot is this: 1) On the Internet, people read selectively, to pick out the information that they want. 2)If people find communication to be more efficient by using language differently, people will read that language differently. This is all fairly obvious, and is not news.