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Why is the newspaper business losing readers at an accelerated rate while television viewership is stronger than ever? Here’s a speculative idea: A tipping point has been passed in the competition between print and screen that has been under way since the beginnings of broadcast TV and now continues with video and other media.
As enamored as advertisers are with the interactive potential of digital advertising, they know that online is a complement to offline, not its replacement.
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- We are so smitten with screens that we often can’t bear to choose one over another: 31 percent of Internet use occurs while we’re in front of a TV set. We are also taking an interest in watching video on our phones: 100 million handsets are video-capable.
- You now hear talk in the advertising trade of our “three screens”: television, the Internet and mobile devices
- immersive experience.”
- In screen culture, video rules.

07 Feb 09

Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired Science from Wired.com

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30 Jan 09

Too Many Online Friends? Time to Delete - NYTimes.com

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29 Jan 09

CRD701: History and Theory of Communication Technology

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25 Jan 09

Book Review - 'Elsewhere, U.S.A,' by Dalton Conley - Review - NYTimes.com

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24 Jan 09

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Never alone

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13 Jan 09

The Renegades at the New York 'Times' - The All New Issue -- New York Magazine

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10 Jan 09

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Complete control

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18 Dec 08

The Digital Slay-Ride: What's killing newspapers is the same thing that killed the slide rule. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine

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02 Dec 08

SitOrSquat.com : Find a toilet or restroom anywhere in the world

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30 Nov 08

Op-Ed Contributor - How to Publish Without Perishing - NYTimes.com

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26 Nov 08

Is Urban Loneliness a Myth? -- New York Magazine

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Rather than driving people apart, large population centers pull them together, and as a rule tend to possess greater community virtues than smaller ones. This, even though cities are consistently, overwhelmingly, places where people are more likely to live on their own

22 Nov 08

Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com

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Now invention is again overthrowing the dominant media
We are becoming people of the scree
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- he fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authorit
- he past is a rush of data streams cut and rearranged into a new mashup, while truth is something you assemble yourself on your own screen as you jump from link to link
- m book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality.
- It is easier to read a book than to write one; easier to listen to a song than to compose one; easier to attend a play than to produce one.

Hands-free cellphone use while driving won't make the roads safer, studies show. Why? Brain overload. - Los Angeles Times

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Global cell phone use at 50 percent | Technology | Reuters

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21 Nov 08

Web video ads are annoying and repetitive. Here's how to fix them. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

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e manufacturer of the BlackBerry is a huge online advertiser, but the company has produced only a handful of Web ads. In each one, various unobjectionable pictures and logos depicting suburban life—kids playing ball, dogs running, happy people on vacation—all meld together to form a BlackBerry phone. What the announcer says next should not really offend anyone; rendered in print, the words look innocent: "Connect to everything you love in life with BlackBerry." But trust me. Hear that phrase three or four dozen times and it begins to take on an air of menace.