From a personal perspective, I appreciate great writing, but I’ve become frustrated with the quick-consumption nature of many devoted blog readers. Authors are encouraged to cater to drive-by visitors hurrying through their feed readers by producing lightweight content for quick skimming. There’s no time to sit and read anything when you’re going through 500 feed items while responding to email, chatting, and watching bad YouTube videos. As a result, popular blogs are now full of useless “list posts” with no substance or value. Well-written content is out there, and we do have opportunities every day to read it — just not when we’re in information-skimming, speed-overload mode.
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Industrial landscape, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 2006.
so good
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Sometimes I learn things about my work through newspaper articles. My favorite quote:
“After he was...
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Physics student Andrew Oriani diagrams patron movement at the Cleveland Museum of Art to better understand how visitors walk through a museum.
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50 years of government spending, in a single graph by Lam Thuy Vo for NPR.
