• Frank
• Jun 13,2008
• In: Internet

How we read online

Michael Agger at Slate has a great piece on how the modern internet user reads on screen. Among other things, blogs are discussed:

If you want to beat the Internet, you’re not going to do it by blogging (since even OK thinkers occasionally write a great blog post) but by offering a comprehensive take on a subject (thus saving the reader time from searching many sites) and supplying original thinking (offering trusted insight that cannot be easily duplicated by the nonexpert).

In that case, I’d do well to actually provide useful original thought, rather than linking to, quoting and briefly discussing or commenting on various posts or pieces around the internet. Not that I’ll actually do any of that, though.