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  • June 2008

    • Online Readers Have No Attention Span

      newser  |  Slate  |  Jun 14, 08 6:30 PM CDT

      Online Readers Have No Attention Span

      Web readers are fidgety, so writers have to serve up the goods fast, Michael Agger writes in Slate. For example: Online readers are “ selfish, lazy, and ruthless ,” according to theorist Jakob Nielsen. They are informavores hunting for information at all costs. They like text short , scannable , and occasionally bold. And especially love lists . More »

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      Internet  • reading  • online journalism

    • Search Engines: How They're Reshaping Your Brain

      newser  |  Atlantic Monthly  |  Jun 11, 08 10:42 AM CDT

      Search Engines: How They're Reshaping Your Brain

      Although he’s thrilled with all the time he saves using the Internet for research and awed by the vast intellectual opportunities available to every web surfer, Nicholas Carr is a bit disconcerted that he no longer has the patience for reading books or long articles. With his netizen mind fidgeting and losing the thread after a few pages, Carr wonders in the Atlantic : What is the net doing to our brains? More »

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      Internet  • book  • computer  • reading  • artificial intelligence  • human intelligence

  • May 2008

    • Bored at Work? Site Disguises Classic Lit

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  May 30, 08 2:08 PM CDT

      Bored at Work? Site Disguises Classic Lit

      Business world got you down? Want to escape into a classic poem or short story? The New Zealand Book Council has made a website to help you: ReadatWork.com. The site brings up a fake Windows desktop with folders and PowerPoint files, the Wall Street Journal reports. Click on them, and you get classic literature disguised as a business presentation. More »

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      literature  • website  • reading  • novel  • corporate culture  • office  • poetry

    • 10 Easy Breezy Summer Reads

      newser  |  MSNBC  |  May 28, 08 12:00 PM CDT

      10 Easy Breezy Summer Reads

      The perfect summer read is like a breathmint: light, refreshing, and available for purchase at the airport. Cosmopolitan book editor John Searles dishes his top 10 titles  of the season to MSNBC. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein: a family tell-all—from the dog’s POV The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer: a woman learns dark secrets about her husband More »

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      book  • summer  • reading  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    • Depressed Dads Make Kids Less Literate

      newser  |  USA Today  |  May 7, 08 1:20 PM CDT

      Depressed Dads Make Kids Less Literate

      About 10% of new fathers show signs of clinical depression—a rate twice that of other men—and that can have a noticeable effect on their children, an American Psychiatric Association study finds. Sad dads interact less with their progeny, which means less bedtime reading and a smaller vocabulary by age 2, reports USA Today . More »

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      parenting  • depression  • reading  • infant  • toddler  • literacy  • fatherhood  • vocabulary

    • Don't Get Comfy, Harry Potter

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 5, 08 4:27 PM CDT

      Don't Get Comfy, Harry Potter

      Both are fantasists who've sold zillions of books, but in a recent poll of American children, the classic wins out: Dr. Seuss' works are more popular than JK Rowling's. Three million-plus kids weighed in on an educational software company's website, and Rowling's Harry Potter books trail works by EB White, Judy Blume, and Harper Lee, among others, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      children  • book  • Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • reading  • Dr. Seuss  • Harper Lee

  • February 2008

    • Dems' Advice on Reading: 'Blah Blah Blah'

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Feb 28, 08 5:24 PM CST

      Dems' Advice on Reading: 'Blah Blah Blah'

      Your Democratic congressional representative may do well to avoid the advice from Nancy Pelosi's office regarding “Read Across America” day next Monday, writes Washington Post blogger Mary Ann Akers. An email on how to deal with the big day urges Dems to stress the damage done to education programs by Bush—then offers these words on the importance of reading: "blah, blah, blah, blah." More »

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      Nancy Pelosi  • email  • reading

    • Eating Isn't Only Healthy Benefit of Family Dinner

      newser  |  NPR  |  Feb 7, 08 1:18 PM CST

      Eating Isn't Only Healthy Benefit of Family Dinner

      Studies in the 1990s showed that regular family dinners made kids less likely to do drugs, smoke or have psychological problems, but a closer look now finds that it's what goes on during those meals—strong verbal interaction, parents showing interest in their children—that really counts in the youngsters' health and development, NPR reports. More »

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      family  • reading  • literacy

  • January 2008
  • November 2007

    • Is Our Children Reading?

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Nov 19, 07 12:46 PM CST

      Is Our Children Reading?

      As far as young people are concerned, books are so 20th century. Reading's popularity has fallen as gadgets have taken over modern life, according to a new National Endowment for the Arts report. Only a third of high school seniors read at a proficient level. “And proficiency is not a high standard,” the NEA’s chairman told the Boston Globe . “We’re talking about reading the daily newspaper.” More »

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      children  • book  • reading  • literacy  • National Endowment for the Arts

    • Amazon's E-Book Gamble Gets Big Play

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Nov 19, 07 3:24 AM CST

      Amazon's E-Book Gamble Gets Big Play

      News that Amazon would debut its new Kindle e-book leaked earlier this week, and a Newsweek cover story has the full hype on what Jeff Bezos and company hope to achieve with it. "This isn't a device, it's a service," Bezos says of of the Kindle, pointing to its "Whispernet" wireless connection, which uses Sprint's EVDO network, as one of its key attributes. More »

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      Google  • book  • Amazon.com  • publishing  • reading  • Jeff Bezos  • Kindle  • Annie Proulx  • John Updike

  • September 2007

    • Readers Hurt by Paper Cuts

      newser  |  Columbia Journalism Review  |  Sep 3, 07 4:40 PM CDT

      Readers Hurt by Paper Cuts

      Newspapers are under financial pressure, and one of the first things to go is often the book reviews. But author and editor Steve Wasserman thinks that's a serious problem. “Civilization is built on a foundation of books,” he declares in a polemic in CJR, and  stripping their pages of book reviews, he says, is indicative of the anti-intellectual hostility endemic in many newsrooms. More »

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      book  • newspaper  • literature  • reading  • book reviews  • print journalism

  • July 2007

    • What CEOs Read Before They Lead

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 22, 07 1:42 PM CDT

      What CEOs Read Before They Lead

      Scanning the personal libraries of CEOs, tech gurus and venture geniuses reveals not only what they read but how they think, the Times reports. The well-heeled have taken to housing their exorbitant collections in luxurious, custom-built, private spaces. And if you read between the lines, the literature tends to reflect the collector. More »

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      business  • book  • literature  • Steve Jobs  • CEO  • reading  • libraries  • Galileo  • Queen Elizabeth I  • Michael Milken

    • Teens Having Safer Sex, Fewer Babies

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 13, 07 4:55 PM CDT

      Teens Having Safer Sex, Fewer Babies

      High school students are having less sex than kids in the past, and more are using condoms. The teen birth rate is at an all-time low, and the proportion of teens completing high school is up. A new federal report looks at the condition of Americans under 18 and finds a number of bright spots—and areas that need work. More »

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      pregnancy  • teenagers  • reading  • sex education  • condom  • sexuality  • sexual health

    • Harry May Not Cast Spell on Young Readers

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 11, 07 9:55 AM CDT

      Harry May Not Cast Spell on Young Readers

      Part of the "Harry Potter" series' claim to fame has been the way it reintroduced kids to reading for pleasure, but some educators are skeptical. The percentage of children who read for fun decreases every year as they age, with no measurable impact from Harry. Still, teachers and parents swear that for individual kids, the boy wizard made reading cool. More »

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      children  • Harry Potter  • reading

  • June 2007

    • Publisher Fights Lefty Bias in Kids' Lit

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 1, 07 8:34 PM CDT

      Publisher Fights Lefty Bias in Kids' Lit

      A California publishing exec is doing his darnedest to combat the insidious leftward tilt of most children's books. Fed up with gay penguins and anti-business Loraxes, Eric Jackson started his own publishing house. His first release, "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!"—about a kids' lemonaid stand taxed out of business—was a surprise hit. More »

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      children  • book  • publishing  • reading  • Children's books

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