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> “Users with smartphones and tablets are consuming news in bits and bites throughout the course of the day — replacing the old standard behaviors of news consu
by ProblemFactory 13y ago
> “Users with smartphones and tablets are consuming news in bits and bites throughout the course of the day — replacing the old standard behaviors of news consumption over breakfast along with a leisurely read at the end of the day.”
This is precisely why Google Reader is a valuable tool. I subscribe to the belief that if an article is not worth reading 2 weeks later, it's not worth reading at all.
Facebook, Twitter, HN and Reddit require checking multiple times per day to make sure you don't miss good posts. Google Reader lets me review blog posts once a week, and prioritise reading by the source, not freshness of the content.
- jmduke 13y ago> I subscribe to the belief that if an article is not worth reading 2 weeks later, it's not worth reading at all. I realized that I had been spending upwards of two hours a day reading non-programming articles (the liked of Wired, TechCrunch, ATD, etc.) and then also spending the evening wondering where all my time had gone. I started shunning all those articles (I keep reading HN and programming articles in general because I think they're much more valuable to my future) and started spending two hours in the evening reading books (currently trudging through The Brothers Karamazov) instead. After two weeks, it feels like I'm giving my brain a nice chicken caesar salad instead of a Big Mac.
- davidgerard 13y agoI concur. I've had no broadband at home for nearly a month (as a friend pointed out, OpenReach is, after 40 years, several renamings and a privatization, still basically the good old GPO, except a line takes a few weeks now instead of six months). Finally dredging through the unread mountain of books, and that's ebooks.