Comments on: An uncomfortable thought

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:19:12 +0000

Unfinishedperson, ha ha ;) You’re right, though. I zoom through bloglines way too quickly.

Fred, ain’t it the truth. For my husband, “grading papers” means tracking down plagiarism. And finding it, way too often.

Chartroose, me too. And I used to think I suffered from attention SURFEIT. Now I’m not so sure.

Aunt Sara, speaking of writing for powerpoint presentations… have you seen this?

J. Kaye, go ahead and blame Google if you want. They can take it. :)

RR, I guess he’s the exception that proves the rule. :)

Crit… what do you mean? Did the baby come? [galloping over to your blog to see if there's an update...]

By: Crit

Crit — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:57:05 +0000

I’m with you on wanting the blogosphere to slow down with me (or you). My time online is now limited (and my attention is focused elsewhere even when I am online). I don’t think I’d like Twitter much, although for my current state it might be good to have something that I don’t need to concentrate much for.

By: Ravenous Reader

Ravenous Reader — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:33:31 +0000

I’ve noticed this very tendency in myself over the past two years – I blamed it on menopause, but perhaps it’s the internet.

Scary thought.

My son, however, has the longest attention span of anyone I know (always has) and he also spends more time on the internet than anyone I know (always has).

So, hmmm.

By: J. Kaye

J. Kaye — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:12:42 +0000

I’m ADD…I can’t blame it on Google…lol!

By: Aunt Sara

Aunt Sara — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:35:12 +0000

Last night I sat next to a senior administrator for the local defense contractor at a school council meeting. I told him about teaching middle school students to use the “dialect” of standard written English, and reminding them that they can’t use text message abbreviations or other informalities in their school papers. He said that almost all of the writing at his company is done for powerpoint presentations – bullets, fragments, short phrases – and that he finds it very difficult now to have to “go back” to using full sentences when writing a letter. Maybe Standard Written English will go out of style, and only medieval monks will preserve it in dusty old blogs that only they can read . . .